Autore	Bartels Larry M. <1956->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Russell Sage Foundation
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (342 p.)
Disciplina	330.973
Soggetto topico	Equality - Economic aspects - United States Political culture - United States - History Social classes - Political aspects - United States Power (Social sciences) - Economic aspects - United States Democracy - Economic aspects - United States
ISBN	1-282-08697-9 9786612086977 1-4008-2835-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The new gilded age -- Escalating economic inequality -- Interpreting inequality -- Economic inequality as a political issue -- Inequality and American democracy -- The partisan political economy -- Partisan patterns of income growth -- A partisan coincidence? -- Partisan differences in macroeconomic policy -- Macroeconomic performance and income growth -- Partisan policies and post-tax income growth -- Democrats, Republicans, and the rise of inequality -- Class politics and partisan change -- In search of the working class -- Has the white working class abandoned the Democratic party? -- Have working-class whites become more conservative? -- Do "moral values" trump economics? -- Are religious voters distracted from economic issues? -- Class politics, alive and well -- Partisan biases in economic accountability -- Myopic voters -- The political timing of income growth -- Class biases in economic voting -- The wealthy give something back: partisan biases in campaign spending -- Political consequences of biased accountability -- Do Americans care about inequality? -- Egalitarian values -- Rich and poor -- Perceptions of inequality -- Facts and values in the realm of inequality -- Homer gets a tax cut -- The Bush tax cuts -- Public support for the tax cuts -- Unenlightened self-interest -- The impact of political information -- Chump change -- Into the sunset -- The strange appeal of estate tax repeal -- Public support for estate tax repeal -- Is public support for repeal a product of misinformation? -- Did interest groups manufacture public antipathy to the estate tax? -- Elite ideology and the politics of estate tax repeal -- The eroding minimum wage -- The economic effects of the minimum wage -- Public support for the minimum wage -- The politics of inaction -- Democrats, unions, and the eroding minimum wage -- The earned income tax credit -- Reversing the tide -- Economic inequality and political representation -- Ideological representation -- Unequal responsiveness -- Unequal responsiveness on social issues: the case of abortion -- Partisan differences in representation -- Why are the poor unrepresented? -- Unequal democracy -- Who governs? -- Partisan politics and "the have-nots" -- Political obstacles to economic equality -- The city of utmost necessity.
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Autore	Weaver Frederick Stirton <1939->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (215 p.)
Disciplina	337.73
Soggetto topico	Economics - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-28373-5 9786613283733 1-4422-0890-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Twentieth-Century Quest for a Stable International Economy; Chapter 2: The U.S. Domestic Economy and the International Scene, 1945 to 1970s; Chapter 3: U.S. Political Shifts and beyond Bretton Woods, 1970s to 1980s; Chapter 4: The New International Economy and the Dissolution of U.S. Modern Times, 1970s to 1990s; Chapter 5: The Triumph of Free-Market Global Capitalism, 1990s to 2007; Chapter 6: The Twenty-First-Century Quest for a Stable International Economy; Notes; Selected Readings and Websites; About the Author
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