Unequal democracy : the political economy of the new gilded age /
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- The new gilded age
- Escalating economic inequality
- Interpreting inequality
- Economic inequality as a political issue
- Inequality and American democracy
- The partisan political economy
- Partisan patterns of income growth
- A partisan coincidence?
- Partisan differences in macroeconomic policy
- Macroeconomic performance and income growth
- Partisan policies and post-tax income growth
- Democrats, Republicans, and the rise of inequality
- Class politics and partisan change
- In search of the working class
- Has the white working class abandoned the Democratic party?
- Have working-class whites become more conservative?
- Do "moral values" trump economics?
- Are religious voters distracted from economic issues?
- Class politics, alive and well
- Partisan biases in economic accountability
- Myopic voters
- The political timing of income growth
- Class biases in economic voting
- The wealthy give something back: partisan biases in campaign spending
- Political consequences of biased accountability
- Do Americans care about inequality?
- Egalitarian values
- Rich and poor
- Perceptions of inequality
- Facts and values in the realm of inequality
- Homer gets a tax cut
- The Bush tax cuts
- Public support for the tax cuts
- Unenlightened self-interest
- The impact of political information
- Chump change
- Into the sunset
- The strange appeal of estate tax repeal
- Public support for estate tax repeal
- Is public support for repeal a product of misinformation?
- Did interest groups manufacture public antipathy to the estate tax?
- Elite ideology and the politics of estate tax repeal
- The eroding minimum wage
- The economic effects of the minimum wage
- Public support for the minimum wage
- The politics of inaction
- Democrats, unions, and the eroding minimum wage
- The earned income tax credit
- Reversing the tide
- Economic inequality and political representation
- Ideological representation
- Unequal responsiveness
- Unequal responsiveness on social issues: the case of abortion
- Partisan differences in representation
- Why are the poor unrepresented?
- Unequal democracy
- Who governs?
- Partisan politics and "the have-nots"
- Political obstacles to economic equality
- The city of utmost necessity.