Democratic Equality : : What Went Wrong? / / ed. by Edward Broadbent.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Angus, Ian,; Broadbent, Edward,; Cohen, G.A.,; Ehrenreich, Barbara,; Hackett, Robert A.,; Jenson, Jane,; Lister, Ruth,; Richards, John,; Rothstein, Bo,; Rueschemeyer, Dietrich,; Savas, Daniel,; Stanford, Jim,; Yalnizyan, Armine,
• HerausgeberIn: Broadbent, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Are the world's oldest democracies failing? For most of the past fifty years democratic governments made determined and successful efforts at overcoming the significant inequalities that are the by-product of a capitalist economy. During this period a new concept of democratic citizenship that...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part One: An Overview
• 1. Ten Propositions about Equality and Democracy
• Part Two: The Perspectives of Philosophy, Economics, and Sociology
• 2. Understanding the Universal Welfare State: An Institutional Approach
• 3. The Party's Over: What Now?
• 4. Why Not Socialism?
• 5. Welfare States and Democratic Citizenship
• 6. Equality, Community, and Sustainability
• Part Three: Inequality in Three Democracies
• 7. Rethinking Equality and Equity: Canadian Children and the Social Union
• 8. How Growing Income Inequality Affects Us All
• 9. American Style Welfare Reform: Inequality in the Clinton Era
• 10. Equality and Welfare Reform in Blair's Britain
• Part Four: The Media, Public Opinion, and Financial Inequality
• 11. The News Media and Civic Equality: Watch Dogs, Mad Dogs, or Lap Dogs?
• 12. Growing Inequality: What the World Thinks
• 13. The Economic Consequences of Financial Inequality
• Index