Title: Political inequality in the age of democracy :
Authors: Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf,
Date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge,
Physical description: xxvi, 153 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: "The world has witnessed the creation of new democracies and the maturing of old ones. Yet, everywhere there is democracy, there is also political inequality. Voices of everyday folk struggle to be heard; often, they keep silent. Governments respond mostly to the influential and the already privileged. Our age of democracy, then, is the old age of inequality. This book builds on U.S. scholarship on the topic of political inequality to understand its forms, causes and consequences around the world. Comprised of nine theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters, this path-creating edited collection contains original works by both established and young, up-and-coming social scientists, including those from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Greece and the U.S. Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy addresses the present and future of the concept of political inequality from multi-disciplinary and cross-national perspectives"--
Contents: pt. I Concepts and theories of political inequality -- 1.The concept and study of political inequality / Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow -- 2.Inequality and partial democracy: South America in comparative perspective / Carlos H. Waisman -- 3.Neoliberalism and democracy / Alex Afouxenidis -- pt. II Methodological considerations -- 4.Crossing intersections: Overcoming the challenges of cross-national research on the legislative representation of women from marginalized groups / Melanie M. Hughes -- 5.Arc imported survey questions under-measuring political and gender participation in the global south (... and north)? / Solange Simoes -- pt. III Empirical analyses -- 6.Political capital and the unequal career origins of the political elite in Chile / Javier Torres -- 7.Elite perception of inequality as a threat to democracy in six Latin American countries / Matias Lopez -- 8.Social class and contentious politics in contemporary Europe / Henryk Domanski -- Contents note continued: 9.Democratic engagement of xenophobes and the ethno-discriminated in Europe / Kazimierz M. Slomczynski.
Subject headings (LCSH): Democracy--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.; Equality--Cross-cultural studies.; Political participation--Cross-cultural studies.; Political sociology--Cross-cultural studies.; Power (Social sciences)--Cross-cultural studies.