Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston, The Political Development of American Debt Relief (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium
2. Rogers M. Smith, And Forgive Us Our Debts: Race, Class, and Ideologies in America
3. Teresa A. Sullivan, Federalism, the Business Cycle, Debtor Organization and the Politics of Debt
4. Bradley D. Hays, State-building in the Judiciary, Judicial Independence, and Judicial State-building
5. Julie Novkov, Turning the Kaleidoscope on Debt Relief: What APD can Teach Us about How and When Politics Works
6. Devin Caughey, Debt relief as a window onto the American state
7. Carol Nackenoff, Move Over, Grant McConnell
8. Timothy P.R. Weaver, The Meanings and Pathways of American Political Development
9. Sarah Staszak, Debt Relief and the Multifaceted American State
10. Stephan Stoller, Ideas and Interest: or Why the Have-Nots Used to Come Out Ahead
11. Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston, Class, Race, U.S. Statebuilding and Popular Constitutionalism