Exclusion By Elections - Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy

Informationen zum Autor John D. Huber's research focuses on understanding how the social, political and institutional context affects the outcomes of democratic processes. Along with numerous articles, he is the author of two previous Cambridge University Press books, Rationalizing Parliament, Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France (1996), and Deliberate Discretion? Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (2002, with Charles Shipan). Klappentext This book proposes a new theory of identity politics in elections, explaining why it is difficult for democracies to address rising inequality. Zusammenfassung Exclusion by Elections studies how 'class identities' and 'ethnic identities' become salient in electoral politics! and examines the relationship between identity politics and inequality reduction. A discouraging theme emerging from the research is that inequality invites ethnic rather than class politics! and that ethnic politics makes it difficult to address inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Why worry about inequality and ethnic politics? Part I. The Theoretical Argument: 3. Social structure and distributive politics in elections; 4. A theory of social structure, electoral identities and party systems; 5. Inequality, ethnic polarization and the democratic process; Part II. Empirical Evidence for the Argument: 6. Theory and causal identification; 7. Income and voting behavior; 8. Inequality, ethnic diversity and the ethnification of party systems; 9. Social structure, redistribution and democratic transitions; 10. Conclusion: inequality and the politics of exclusion.

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• Authors: John D Huber, John D. Huber, John D. (Columbia University Huber, Huber John D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107182943
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18294-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Europe, English, Asia, 20th Century, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Elections & referenda, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Elections and referenda / suffrage