Who gets what? the new politics of insecurity
The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| Series: | SSRC anxieties of democracy
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the new politics of insecurity / Frances Rosenbluth and Margaret Weir
- Part I: people
- race, remembrance and precarity: nostalgia and vote choice in the 2016 US election / Andra Gillespie
- The end of human capital solidarity? / Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich
- Public opinion and reactions to increasing income inequality / Kris-Stella Trump
- Engendering democracy in an age of anxiety / Alice Kessler
- Part 2: places
- Keeping your enemies close: electoral rules and partisan polarization / Jonathan Rodden
- America's unequal metropolitan geography: segregation and the spatial concentration of America's unequal metropolitan geography / Douglas S. Massey and Jacob S. Rugh
- Redistribution and the politics of spatial inequality in America / Margaret Weir and Desmond King
- Part 3: politics
- Electoral realignments in the Atlantic world / Carles Boix
- Political parties in the new politics of insecurity / Christian Salas, Frances Rosenbluth, and Ian Shapiro
- The peculiar politics of American insecurity / Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
- The anxiety of precarity: the United States in comparative perspective / Kathleen Thelen and Andreas Wiedemann
- Increasing instability and uncertainty among low-wage workers: implications for inequality and potential policy solutions / Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Yulya Truskinovsky