Paying America's way: The fraught politics of taxes, investments, and budgetary responsibility

Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama's First Two Years

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 386-421

  Campbell, Andrea Louise ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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