Unequal Democracies - Public Policy, Responsiveness, Redistribution in an Era of Rising

"Offers an introduction to the latest research on political inequality and its relationship to economic inequalities in North America and Western Europe. Explores why economic inequality has risen in all affluent democracies, yet governments have done little to compensate low- and middle-income citizens"--

List of contents

1. The political puzzle of rising inequality Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson; Part I. Government Responsiveness: 2. Unequal responsiveness and government partisanship in Northwest Europe Ruben Berge Mathisen, Wouter Schakel, Svenja Hense, Lea Elsässer, Mikael Persson and Jonas Pontusson; 3. Democracy, class interests, and redistribution: what do the data say? Mads Andreas Elkjær and Torben Iversen; 4. Measuring political inequality Larry M. Bartels; 5. Why so little sectionalism in the contemporary United States? The under-representation of place-based economic interests Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson and Sam Zacher; Part II. Political Inequality and Representation: 6. On the mechanisms behind unequal representation in legislatures Michael Becher and Daniel Stegmueller; 7. How do the educated govern? Evidence from Spanish mayors Marta Curto-Grau and Aina Gallego; 8. Working-class officeholding in the OECD Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu; 9. Political participation and unequal representation: Addressing the endogeneity problem Ruben Berge Mathisen and Yvette Peters; Part III. Voters and Demand for Redistribution: 10. Fairness reasoning and demand for redistribution Charlotte Cavaillé; 11. The news media and the politics of inequality in advanced democracies J Scott Matthews, Timothy Hicks and Alan M. Jacobs; 12. Deflecting from racism: local talk radio conversations about the murder of George Floyd Katherine J. Cramer; 13. Class and social policy representation Macarena Ares and Silja Häusermann; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Noam (Vanderbilt University Lupu
• Assisted by: Noam Lupu (Editor), Lupu Noam (Editor), Jonas Pontusson (Editor), Pontusson Jonas (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009428644
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942864-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: SSRC Anxieties of Democracy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, 21st Century, Social Mobility, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Public finance, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Public finance and taxation