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This volume examines and discusses American federalism's current status, in particular the enormous changes in the last 30 years. states and localities contrasted with legislation and supreme court decisions explicity limiting their autonomy. running, ever changing, experiment in democracy.

Two main issues dominate the debates surrounding the Pacific region today: prosperity and peace. Why have parts of the Asian/Pacific side grown so quickly while other parts of the Pacific, much of Latin America, Africa and other areas have not? How have these changes altered the international system of security? Political and Social Science, offers an in-depth examination of these debates, as well as providing a better understanding of the changes taking place within the region and giving rise to new ways of integrating classic variables into arguments that permit deeper analysis.

With the growth of technological capabilities that allow government agencies to organize, link, and analyze a large amount of data across various sources, an important resource-administrative data-can be used to change the way that the United States designs and implements public policies. This volume of The ANNALS outlines the infrastructures that will need to be built to make sure data providers and empirical researchers can best serve national policy needs. The volume is organized around three topics: privacy and confidentiality, data providers, and comprehensive strategies.

1 Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of ConsumptionDhavan V. Shah, Lewis A. Friedland, Chris Wells, Young Mie Kim, and Hernando Rojas2 The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of ParticipationW. Lance Bennett3 The Politics of Consumer Debt: U.S. State Policy and the Rise of Investment in Consumer Credit, 1920-2008Louis Hyman4 Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950-2010Erika L. Paulson and Thomas C. O'Guinn5 What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for ActionKjerstin Thorson6 Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of ConsumptionMichele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle7 Political Consumerism and New Forms of Political Participation: The Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale in ItalyPaolo R. Graziano and Francesca Forno8 Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of TasteNam-Jin Lee, Christine L. Garlough, Lewis A. Friedland, and Dhavan V. Shah9 The Shifting Sands of Citizenship: Toward a Model of the Citizenry in Life PoliticsYoung Mie Kim10 Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Conscious ConsumerMargaret M. Willis and Juliet B. Schor11 Buying In to Social Change: How Private Consumption Choices Engender Concern for the CollectiveLucy Atkinson12 From Concerned Shopper to Dutiful Citizen: Implications of Individual and Collective Orientations toward Political ConsumerismMelissa R. Gotlieb and Chris Wells13 Examining Overconsumption, Competitive Consumption, and Conscious Consumption from 1994 to 2004: Disentangling Cohort and Period EffectsD. Jasun Carr, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Nam-Jin Lee, and Dhavan V. Shah14 Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable MarketsDouglas B. Holt15 The Civic Consequences of "Going Negative": Attack Ads and Adolescents' Knowledge, Consumption, and ParticipationMing Wang, Itay Gabay, and Dhavan V. Shah16 Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer ChoiceThomas Hove17 Consuming Ourselves to Dearth: Escalating Inequality and Public OpinionLewis A. Friedland, Hernando Rojas, and Leticia Bode