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Unequal Democracy - The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Unequal Democracy - The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
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List price R576
Loot Price R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
You Save R78 (14%)
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An acclaimed examination of how the American political system
favors the wealthy-now fully revised and expanded The first edition
of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions
about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular
interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating
economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second
edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the
Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of
the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and
the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic
fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses
the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street
movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama's
second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the
barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political
power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy,
partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise
the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation.
President Obama identified inequality as "the defining challenge of
our time." Unequal Democracy is the definitive account of how and
why our political system has failed to rise to that challenge. Now
more than ever, this is a book every American needs to read.
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