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Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age

Larry M. Bartels

How did economic inequality grow in America, and how far does it turn into political inequality?

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Author
Larry M. Bartels

Why read it

  • You will weigh the finding that real income growth has been much stronger under Democratic presidents than Republican ones
  • You will be able to answer whether elected officials listen more to wealthy constituents than to middle class and poor ones
  • You will test the popular claim that working class whites vote on moral values rather than their economic interests

Who it is for

  • A voter wondering whose interests government serves
  • A political science student studying inequality
  • A citizen who suspects politicians listen mainly to the rich

Contents

  1. UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY
  2. UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY
  3. Larry M. Bartels
  4. Preface
  5. UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY
  6. CHAPTER 1
  7. The New Gilded Age
  8. ESCALATING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
  9. INTERPRETING INEQUALITY
  10. ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AS A POLITICAL ISSUE
  11. INEQUALITY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
  12. CHAPTER 2
  13. The Partisan Political Economy
  14. PARTISAN PATTERNS OF INCOME GROWTH
  15. A PARTISAN COINCIDENCE?
  16. PARTISAN DIFFERENCES IN MACROECONOMIC POLICY
  17. MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND INCOME GROWTH
  18. PARTISAN POLICIES AND POST-TAX INCOME GROWTH
  19. DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, AND THE RISE OF INEQUALITY
  20. CHAPTER 3
  21. Class Politics and Partisan Change
  22. IN SEARCH OF THE WORKING CLASS
  23. HAS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS ABANDONED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
  24. HAVE WORKING-CLASS WHITES BECOME MORE CONSERVATIVE?
  25. DO “MORAL VALUES” TRUMP ECONOMICS?
  26. ARE RELIGIOUS VOTERS DISTRACTED FROM ECONOMIC ISSUES?
  27. CLASS POLITICS, ALIVE AND WELL
  28. CHAPTER 4
  29. Partisan Biases in Economic Accountability
  30. MYOPIC VOTERS
  31. THE POLITICAL TIMING OF INCOME GROWTH
  32. CLASS BIASES IN ECONOMIC VOTING
  33. THE WEALTHY GIVE SOMETHING BACK: PARTISAN BIASES IN CAMPAIGN SPENDING
  34. POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BIASED ACCOUNTABILITY
  35. CHAPTER 5
  36. Do Americans Care about In equality?
  37. EGALITARIAN VALUES
  38. RICH AND POOR
  39. PERCEPTIONS OF INEQUALITY
  40. FACTS AND VALUES IN THE REALM OF INEQUALITY
  41. CHAPTER 6
  42. Homer Gets a Tax Cut
  43. THE BUSH TAX CUTS
  44. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE TAX CUTS
  45. UNENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST
  46. THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL INFORMATION
  47. CHUMP CHANGE
  48. INTO THE SUNSET
  49. CHAPTER 7
  50. The Strange Appeal of Estate Tax Repeal
  51. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ESTATE TAX REPEAL
  52. IS PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR REPEAL A PRODUCT OF MISINFORMATION?
  53. DID INTEREST GROUPS MANUFACTURE PUBLIC ANTIPATHY TO THE ESTATE TAX?
  54. ELITE IDEOLOGY AND THE POLITICS OF ESTATE TAX REPEAL
  55. CHAPTER 8
  56. The Eroding Minimum Wage
  57. THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE MINIMUM WAGE
  58. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE MINIMUM WAGE
  59. THE POLITICS OF INACTION
  60. DEMOCRATS, UNIONS, AND THE ERODING MINIMUM WAGE

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