ISBN:
9781108879170
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 332 pages)
Series Statement:
SSRC anxieties of democracy
DDC:
339.20973
Keywords:
Demokratie
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Unsicherheit
;
Income distribution 21st century
;
Political culture 21st century
;
Polarization (Social sciences) 21st century
;
Equality 21st century
;
USA
Abstract:
The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places-and fragment political parties-hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108879170
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