Tales of the state : narrative in contemporary U.S. politics and public policy

Introduction / Sanford F. Schram and Philip T. Neisser

1. Winning the West, Unwelcoming the Immigrant: Alternative Stories of "America" / Michael J. Shapiro

2. Constitutional Tales: Capitalist Origin Stories and U.S. Democracy / Carl Swidorski

3. Pluralizing the American Dream / Miriam B. Rosenthal and Sanford F. Schram

4. The Storyteller in Chief: Why Presidents Like to Tell Tales / John Kenneth White

5. The Cycle of Representation: The House Republicans and the Contract with America / Sanford F. Schram

6. Native Son: Stories of Self-Creation in the Judicial Politics of Clarence Thomas / Leslie J. Vaughan

7. Talking Straight: Narrating the Political Economy of Gay Rights / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

8. "It's Not Just Naked Women"

Regulating Transgressive Identities in Cyberspace / R. Scott Daniels

9. Welfare Queens: Policing by the Numbers / Barbara Cruikshank

10. Tales of Black Criminality: Racial Determinism and Fatal Narratives / Gerard Fergerson

11. Welfare Migration as a Policy Rumor: A Statistical Accounting / Sanford F. Schram, Lawrence Nitz and Gary Krueger

12. Tales of the City: The Secret Life of Devolution / Joseph Kling

13. The Entrepreneurial Gloss: The Myth of Small Business Job Growth / Phillip H. Sandro

14. The Vanishing White Man: Workforce 2000 and Tales of Demographic Transformation / Joel Best

15. Schooling Stories: Three Paths, Two Tragedies, One Vision / Ruthanne Kurth-Schai and Charles R. Green

16. Rumors of Apartheid: Myth and Stereotype in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Africa / Donald R. Culverson

17. National Security Tales and the End of the Cold War / Joseph Peschek

18. NAFTA Discourse: Tales of Sovereignty, Science, and Adjustment / Philip T. Neisser

19. Is It Global Economics or Neo-Laissez-Faire? / Frances Fox Piven