Race, Class, and Social Welfare

Erik J. Engstrom is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis. He is the author of Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (2013) and co-author of Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System (2014). The latter was the co-winner of the 2015 J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in Politics and History from the American Political Science Association. Robert Huckfeldt is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. He is the author or co-author of a series of journal articles and books, including most recently Experts, Activists, and Interdependent Citizens with T.K. Ahn and John Barry Ryan. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

'In their incisive and illuminating book, Race, Class and Social Welfare, Erik Engstrom and Robert Huckfeldt have captured the extraordinary upheaval in American politics from the 1930s to the present. The two authors detail in clear prose and accessible data the complex interaction of race and class that had led to what they accurately describe as the 'upside-down populism' of Donald Trump. A book worth the price.' Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times

• 1. American Politics and Social Welfare; 2. Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Oligarchy; 3. Civil Rights, Social Welfare, and Populism; 4. Civil Rights and Populism: The 1957 Civil Rights Act in the US Senate (With Jack Reilly); 5. Race, Class, and the End of the New Deal in the US Senate (With Fan Lu); 6. Transforming the twentieth-Century House; 7. Turning Populism Upside Down; 8. Dueling Populists and the Political Ecology of 2016; 9. Conclusion: The Dangers of Upside Down Populism.