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Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies:

The Interplay of Values and Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780271034409
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Vicki L. Birchfield
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Local release date: 16/03/2009
Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Comparative politics [JPB]

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Examines patterns of income inequality among 16 advanced democracies from the mid 1970s to the early 2000s and explains why some societies have a large and growing divide between the rich and the poor while others, facing similar global economic pressures, maintain more egalitarian income distributions.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Theoretical Foundations: Political Economy as Applied Democratic Theory

2. Political Justice Versus Market Justice: Why Values Matter

3. The Power and the Limitations of Political Institutions: Retooling the Consensus-Majoritarian Framework to “Bring Culture In”

4. The Interaction of Institutions, Values, and Income Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis

5. The Exceptions Prove the Rule: Case Studies in Income Inequality in Switzerland and the United Kingdom

Conclusion

References

Index

“Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies is a highly original study that breaks new ground as it demonstrates, through both quantitative and qualitative methods, that political ideas and values are just as significant as questions of institutional organization and interest-based calculations are in explaining the trajectory of income inequality in advanced industrialized democracies. The book is certain to have a big impact across a wide range of fields.”

—Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and Professor of International Relations, Boston University

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