TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartels,Larry M.
TI  - Unequal democracy: the political economy of the new gilded age 
SN  - 9781400828357 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HC106.5 B283u 2008
U1  - 330.973 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Russell Sage Foundation, Princeton University Press
KW  - Equality
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Political culture
KW  - History
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Democracy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - Comparative
KW  - Economic History
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-316) and index; 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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