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POLITICS, LAW, AND GOVERNMENT
NEW FORTHCOMING NEW
Meltdown Presidents and Mass The Dysfunctional
The Financial Crisis, Incarceration Politics of the
Consumer Protection, Choices at the Top, Affordable Care Act
and the Road Forward Repercussions GREG M. SHAW
LARRY KIRSCH AND at the Bottom
GREGORY D. SQUIRES
LINDA MANCILLAS
FOREWORD: AN INTERVIEW WITH
ELIZABETH WARREN
AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL BARR
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CFPB. catastrophe in the United States. —Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace Sayre
—Howell E. Jackson, James S. Reid Jr., FEATURES Professor of Government at Columbia
University, February 23, 2017
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, • Explains how presidential “tough-
November 28, 2016 on-crime” rhetoric fueled by the While analyzing the contentious debate
public’s fear of crime led to the war
Meltdown reveals how the Consumer on crime, the war on drugs, and the over health care reform, this much-
Financial Protection Bureau was war on gangs, resulting in the nation needed study also challenges the
able to curb important unsafe and becoming known as “Prison America” argument that treating medical patients
unfair practices that led to the recent • Presents undeniable evidence that like shoppers can significantly reduce
financial crisis. In interviews with key U.S. presidents have played a major health expenditures.
government, industry, and advocacy role in America’s imprisonment FEATURES
groups along with deep archival tragedy • Explains why the two political parties
research, Kirsch and Squires show where have staked out such different
the CFPB was able to overcome many LINDA K. MANCILLAS, PhD, is positions on health care reform
abusive practices, where it was less able assistant professor of political science
to do so, and why. at Georgia Gwinnett College.
GREG M. SHAW, PhD, is professor
LARRY KIRSCH is managing partner and chair of the Political Science
of IMR Health Economics, Portland, OR. Department at Illinois Wesleyan
University.
GREGORY D. SQUIRES is professor at
George Washington University.
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