Unequal democracy
Subtitle: the political economy of the new gilded age
By: Larry M. Bartels
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation; Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780691136639
Subjects: Political culture; Equality; Democracy; Economic conditions; Power (Social sciences); History; Social classes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: The new gilded age; title: Escalating economic inequality; title: Interpreting inequality; title: Economic inequality as a political issue; title: Inequality and American democracy; title: The partisan political economy; title: Partisan patterns of income growth; title: A partisan coincidence?; title: Partisan differences in macroeconomic policy; title: Macroeconomic performance and income growth; title: Partisan policies and post-tax income growth; title: Democrats, Republicans, and the rise of inequality; title: Class politics and partisan change; title: In search of the working class; title: Has the white working class abandoned the Democratic party?; title: Have working-class whites become more conservative?; title: Do "moral values" trump economics?; title: Are religious voters distracted from economic issues?; title: Class politics, alive and well; title: Partisan biases in economic accountability; title: Myopic voters; title: The political timing of income growth; title: Class biases in economic voting; title: The wealthy give something back: partisan biases in campaign spending; title: Political consequences of biased accountability; title: Do Americans care about inequality?; title: Egalitarian values; title: Rich and poor; title: Perceptions of inequality; title: Facts and values in the realm of inequality; title: Homer gets a tax cut; title: The Bush tax cuts; title: Public support for the tax cuts; title: Unenlightened self-interest; title: The impact of political information; title: Chump change; title: Into the sunset; title: The strange appeal of estate tax repeal; title: Public support for estate tax repeal; title: Is public support for repeal a product of misinformation?; title: Did interest groups manufacture public antipathy to the estate tax?; title: Elite ideology and the politics of estate tax repeal; title: The eroding minimum wage; title: The economic effects of the minimum wage; title: Public support for the minimum wage; title: The politics of inaction; title: Democrats, unions, and the eroding minimum wage; title: The earned income tax credit; title: Reversing the tide; title: Economic inequality and political representation; title: Ideological representation; title: Unequal responsiveness; title: Unequal responsiveness on social issues: the case of abortion; title: Partisan differences in representation; title: Why are the poor unrepresented?; title: Unequal democracy; title: Who governs?; title: Partisan politics and "the have-nots"; title: Political obstacles to economic equality; title: The city of utmost necessity.