Divide and Deal : : The Politics of Distribution in Democracies /

Divide and Deal : : The Politics of Distribution in Democracies / / ed. by Ian Shapiro, Peter A. Swenson, Daniela Donno Panayides.

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Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealt...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bardhan, Pranab,
Birney, Mayling,
Donno, Daniela,
Ganghof, Steffen,
Graetz, Michael J.,
Howard, Christopher,
Kunicová, Jana,
Lee, Woojin,
Mares, Isabela,
Nattrass, Nicoli,
Roemer, John,
Scheve, Kenneth,
Seekings, Jeremy,
Shapiro, Ian,
Stasavage, David,
Swenson, Peter A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Panayides, Daniela Donno,
Shapiro, Ian,
Swenson, Peter A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Institutions
  • Chapter 1. Welfare Regimes and Redistribution in the South
  • Chapter 2. Distributional Confl icts in Mature Welfare States
  • Chapter 3. The Politics of Tax Structure
  • Chapter 4. AIDS, Inequality, and Access to Antiretroviral Treatment
  • Chapter 5. Distributive Politics and Formal Institutions in New Democracies
  • Part II. Individuals
  • Chapter 6. Religion and Social Insurance Evidence from the United States, 1970 – 2002
  • Chapter 7. Moral Values and Distributive Politics An Equilibrium Analysis of the 2004 U.S. Election
  • Chapter 8. Giving the People What They Want? Age, Class, and Distribution in the United States
  • Part III. Coalitions
  • Chapter 9. Good Distribution, Bad Delivery, and Ugly Politics
  • Chapter 10. Democracy and Distributive Politics in India
  • Chapter 11. The Political Uses of Public Opinion Lessons from the Estate Tax Repeal
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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