Note to students: As of 7 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, this study guide is complete and I won't add to it again. For the term IDs I'll only choose from the bolded terms. But many of those can be better understood if you know how they relate to the terms near them in the lists. Also, those unbolded terms may be relevant to the answer you make on the long essay.
Be prepared to define neoliberalism and the neoliberal era, write knowledgably about the trade, immigration and/or labor policies during that time and their impact on Americans, and consider the prospects for the post-neoliberal era we are now living in. How is Trump shaping that era? What alternatives can Democrats offer?
Collective Action dilemma, 226.
Project 2025
Belief polarization
Flight 93 Election
Dorm-room Marxism, 37
"Civility Business," 52
Contempt
Affective polarization
Negative partisanship
Party Sorting
Morris Fiorina
Party polarization
Great Awokening (Fiorina, 3)
[Wages of whiteness,] 65
Secularization
First-past-the-post
Great replacement
Bread-and-butter issues, 75
Universal (re: gov't-provided benefits), 75
Identity-focused rhetoric
Hidden Tribes of America
Exhausted majority
Bold terms are key terms
Liberation Day
Trade Deficit, 165, 171, 179
Neoliberal era
Financialization
Globalization
NAFTA, 169, 175, 180,
John Edwards
Neo-populist
Permanent normal trade relations
WTO
2008 financial crisis
Financial deregulation
"Trade is a class issue," 173
"Right side of History"
"Bubble of consensus" (on economic theory)
"Trade deals massively altered the balance of power between management and labor," 174
Professional class (aka professional-managerial class, or PMC)
Economics as Ideology
"Compensate the losers," 177, 184
"Insofar as the losers deserve any compensation."
Global poor
Meritocratic entitlement
Peter Navaro vs. Gary Cohn
Steel towns
Nationalism
David Autor
China trade Shock
Minimum wage
Switchers
"Precarious," 185,
"Democrats . . . are seen as the engineers of manufacturing loss," 186
Automation
AI
Augmentation
Patrick Ruffini
Commonsense majority
Multiracial working class
Non-graduates
Note: many of the key terms in reading #25 come up in this reading too. Make a note of those.
1965 Immigration and Nationality Act
Family reunification
Most-favored-nation
H1-B visa program
Immigration surplus
Native losers and winners
Fiscal hole
Open borders
National identity
Assimilation
Identity liberalism, 138
[Biden immigration surge,] 142-145
Denmark Social Democrats
Asylum system
Brahman left
Xenophobia
Cosmopolitan professionals, 157
"The sense of national identity that helps justify high tax rates," 159
Social trust
Emma Lazarus
Coyotes
TPS
Braceros
Texas Proviso
Victimless crime?
E-Verify
Oren Cass
American Compass
PRO Act
NLRA and NLRB
Workers councils
[Company unions]
TEAM Act
Optimizing consumption
Dignified work
Josh Hawley
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Morgan Lewis
Crystal Carey
Littler Mendelson
Jonathan Berry
Bureau of International Labor Affairs (130)
Jake Rosenfeld
Public sector unions
The strike
"Pathway upward" 6
Great Compression
Big labor
Union wage premium
Collective bargaining
EFCA, 190 (Later watered down, as PRO)
Class warfare, 190.
EITC (earned income tax credit)
Co-determination aka cooperative arrangements