There has been much concern about rising levels of income
inequality in the societies of advanced industrial democracies.
Commentators have attributed this increase to the impact of
globalization, the decline of the welfare state, or the erosion of
the power of labor unions and their allies among left-wing
political parties. But little attention has been paid to variations
among these countries in the degree of inequality. This is the
subject that Vicki Birchfield tackles in this ambitious book.
Differences in political institutions have been seen by
political scientists as one likely explanation, but Birchfield
shows institutional variation to be only one part of the story.
Deploying an original conceptualization of political economy as
applied democratic theory, she makes the compelling case that
cultural values--particularly citizens' attitudes about social
justice and about the proper roles of the market and the
state--need to be factored into any account that will provide an
adequate explanation for the observable patterns. To support her
argument, she brings to bear both multivariate statistical analyses
and historical comparative case studies, making this book a model
for how quantitative and qualitative research can be effectively
combined to produce more complete explanations of political and
socioeconomic phenomena.
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