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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Description: InĀ Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All MovementĀ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Lindy HernĀ provides a comprehensive history of the grassroots Movement for Health Care Reform in the United States from within the Single Payer Movement. Hern discusses the role that narrative (constructions of opportunity) plays in grassroots mobilization, which builds on existing social movement theory. She examines the turn against āpolitics as usualā and establishment politicians that began in progressive social movements long before the election of Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...