Here are this week’s top-grossing iPad applications:ġ. Mika Mobile's Zombieville USA 2 also emerges as a popular pick in its first week of release, while the free-to-play favorites DragonVale, Tap Pet Hotel, Crime City, and High Noon rake in top revenue via microtransaction sales. Gameloft's multiplayer FPS Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation reports brisk sales in its debut week, putting it in close competition with reigning chart champ Poker by Zynga. This week's top-grossing iPhone titles are:Ģ. All titles in the App Store's "Games" category are considered in chart rankings. It differs significantly from the Top 10 Games chart, which is ranked by sales, and therefore is dominated by lower-priced titles that sell more copies.ĭata comes courtesy of Apple's public sales information.
These charts allow end users to see who is making the most money on the App Store that day. revenue charts see Poker by Zynga and Zombieville USA 2 earning top iPhone sales, while Modern Combat 3 and Smurfs' Village emerge as big sellers on the iPad. Our charge to the discussants is to evaluate the book's central claims and evidence, with a focus on three related questions: 1) How compelling is its analysis of the “how” and “why” of recent US public policy and its “turn” in favor of “the rich” and against “the middle class”? 2) How compelling is its critique of the subfield of “American politics” for its focus on the voter–politician linkage and on “politics as spectacle” at the expense of an analysis of “politics as organized combat”? 3) And do you agree with its argument that recent changes in US politics necessitate a different, more comparative, and more political economy–centered approach to the study of US politics?-Jeffrey C.Every week, Gamasutra rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store. While most of our discussants are specialists on “American politics,” we have also sought out scholars beyond this subfield. Schattschneider to Ted Lowi and Charles Lindblom.In this symposium, we have brought together a group of important scholars and commentators who offer a range of perspectives on the book and on the broader themes it engages. Page, starkly posed the question “Oligarchy in the United States?” and answered it with an equally stark “yes.” Winner-Take-All Politics thus engages a broader scholarly discussion within US political science, at the same time that it both draws upon and echoes many “classic themes” of US political science from the work of Charles Beard and E. And in December 2009, our lead article, by Jeffrey A. In March 2009, we featured a symposium on Larry Bartels's Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. We mean, in other words, a state of affairs in which the rich influence government in such a way as to protect and expand their own wealth and influence, often at the expense of others.” Fukuyama makes clear that he believes that this state of affairs obtains in the United States today.Readers of Perspectives on Politics will know that the topic has garnered increasing attention from political scientists in general and in our journal in particular. Francis Fukuyama's lead essay, entitled “Left Out,” clarifies that by “plutocracy,” the journal means “not just rule by the rich, but rule by and for the rich.
The headline on the cover of the January–February 2011 issue of The American Interest-“Inequality and Democracy: Are Plutocrats Drowning Our Republic?”-is indicative. The political power of “the rich” is a theme of widespread public attention. Its topic could not be more relevant to a US polity wracked by bitter partisan disagreements about taxes, social spending, financial regulation, social insecurity, and inequality. Hacker and Paul Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is both a work of political science and a contribution to broad public discussion of distributive politics.
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