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Episode: Ursula Hackett, "America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Description: Political Scientist Ursula Hackettās new book,Ā America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the StateĀ (Cambridge UP, 2020), is the winner of the APSA 2021 Education Policy and Politics Section Best Book Award.Ā Americaās Voucher PoliticsĀ Ā examines the way that the approach to vouchers, as a policy design and as a point of advocacy, has evolved over the past decades, and, in the process, this policy area has shifted strategic losses into strategic and growing wins. School vouchers, essentially the central case study in Hackettās book, are a perfect example of what Hackett describes as āattenuated governance.ā Attenuated gove...