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Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (Paperback)
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Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (Paperback)
Series: A Journal of Democracy Book
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The rise of populism in new democracies, especially in Latin
America, has brought renewed urgency to the question of how liberal
democracy deals with issues of poverty and inequality. Citizens who
feel that democracy failed to improve their economic condition are
often vulnerable to the appeal of political leaders with
authoritarian tendencies. To counteract this trend, liberal
democracies must establish policies that will reduce socioeconomic
disparities without violating liberal principles, interfering with
economic growth, or ignoring the consensus of the people. "Poverty,
Inequality, and Democracy" addresses the complicated philosophical
and moral issues surrounding the distribution of economic goods in
free societies as well as the empirical relationships between
democratization and trends in poverty and inequality. This volume
also discusses the variety of welfare-state policies that have been
adopted in different regions of the world. The book's distinguished
group of contributors provides a succinct synthesis of the
scholarship on this topic. They address such broad issues as
whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors
that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies
must make as they decide how to deal with inequality. Chapters
focus on particular regions or countries, examining how problems of
poverty and inequality have been handled (or mishandled) by newer
democracies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy will prove vital reading for all
students of world politics, political economy, and democracy's
global prospects. Contributors include: Dan Banik, Nancy Bermeo,
Dorothee Bohle, Nathan Converse, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Francis
Fukuyama, Bela Greskovits, Stephan Haggard, Ethan B. Kapstein,
Robert R. Kaufman, Taekyoon Kim, Huck-Ju Kwon, Jooha Lee, Peter
Lewis, Beatriz Magaloni, Mitchell A. Orenstein, Marc F. Plattner,
Charles Simkins, Alejandro Toledo, and Ilcheong Yi.
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