lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.” 15 Alan I. Abramowitz, “Did the Wall Street Meltdown Change the Election?” Sabato's Crystal Ball ...
It is the best work that has been done on the political economy of income inequality."--Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University "Unequal Democracycompletes the story of why America's wealthy have become superrich.
Has America really entered a New Gilded Age? What are the political consequences of the growing income gap? Can democracy survive such vast economic inequality?
Bartels argues that this is due to the political choices made by governments that favor the wealthy.
Popular Explanations of the Environmental Crisis -- Inequality, Democracy, and Macro-Structural Environmental Sociology -- The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Environment -- Modern Agriculture and the Environment -- ...
This volume also discusses the variety of welfare-state policies that have been adopted in different regions of the world. The book’s distinguished group of contributors provides a succinct synthesis of the scholarship on this topic.
Introduces the latest research on political inequality and its relationship to economic inequalities in North America and Western Europe.
Inequality and American Democracy tackles the complex relationships between economic, social, and political inequality with authoritative insight, showcases a new generation of critical studies of American democracy, and highlights an issue ...
Unpacking how federalism transforms Medicaid beneficiaries' interpretations of government and structures their participation in politics, the book examines American democracy from the vantage point(s) of those who are living in or near ...
The contributors to this important new volume skillfully disentangle a series of complex relationships between economics and politics to show how inequality both shapes and is shaped by policy.