TY  - GEN
T1  - Unequal democracies : public policy, responsiveness, and redistribution in an era of rising economic inequality
T2  - SSRC anxieties of democracy.
A2  - Lupu, Noam
A2  - Pontusson, Jonas
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York. NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009428682
AB  - While economic inequality has risen in every affluent democracy in North America and Western Europe, the last three decades have also been characterized by falling or stagnating levels of state-led economic redistribution. Why have democratically accountable governments not done more to distribute top-income shares to citizens with low- and middle-income? Unequal Democracies offers answers to this question, bringing together contributions that focus on voters and their demands for redistribution with contributions on elites and unequal representation that is biased against less-affluent citizens. While large and growing bodies of research have developed around each of these perspectives, this volume brings them into rare dialogue. Chapters also incorporate analyses that center exclusively on the United States and those that examine a broader set of advanced democracies to explore the uniqueness of the American case and its contribution to comparative perspectives. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
OP  - 365
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).
CN  - JK271 .U5325 2024
SN  - 9781009428682 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009428644 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009428637 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009428644
KW  - Democracy : Economic aspects : United States.
KW  - Democracy : Economic aspects : Europe.
KW  - Income distribution : Political aspects : United States.
KW  - Income distribution : Political aspects : Europe.
KW  - Representative government and representation : United States.
KW  - Representative government and representation : Europe.
ER  -