Democracy, Inequality, and Representation in Comparative Perspective ebook

by Pablo Beramendi,Christopher J. Anderson

Pablo Beramendi Christopher J. Anderson Business and Finance English

Pablo Beramendi and Christopher J. Anderson. The chapters in this book have examined the relationship between income inequality and processes of democratic representation in the advanced democracies of the West

Pablo Beramendi and Christopher J. The chapters in this book have examined the relationship between income inequality and processes of democratic representation in the advanced democracies of the West. They have traced the dimensions, evolution, and differences in income inequality across most if not all of the rich countries, including the United States and much of Europe.

Pablo Beramendi and Christopher Anderson show how disparity mutes political voices: at the individual level . There is a controversy in comparative political economy on what determines the varying scope of redistribution.

Pablo Beramendi and Christopher Anderson show how disparity mutes political voices: at the individual level, citizens with the lowest incomes are the least likely to vote, while high levels of inequality in a society result in diminished electoral participation overall. Thomas Cusack, Iverson, and Philipp Rehm demonstrate that uncertainty in the economy changes voters' attitudes; the mere risk of losing one's job generates increased popular demand for income support policies almost as much as actual unemployment does.

Pablo Beramendi is a political scientist working on the political economy of redistribution and inequality. CHRISTOPHER J. ANDERSON is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Prior to returning to Oxford University, where he obtained his doctorate in 2003, he was a professor in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Ronald Rogowski and Duncan McRae illustrate how changes in levels. Be the first to ask a question about Democracy, Inequality, and Representation in Comparative Perspective. Lists with This Book.

Christopher J. Anderson, Pablo Beramendi. But the magnitude and. But the magnitude and pace of the increase differs dramatically across nations. A country's political system and its institutions play a critical role in determining levels of inequality in a society. AndersonProfessor in. .Democracy, Inequality, and Representation in Comparative Perspective. CJ Anderson, P Beramendi. Comparative Political Studies 45 (6), 714-746, 2012.

Democracy, Inequality, and Representation in Comparative Perspective. P Beramendi, CJ Anderson. Russell Sage Foundation, 2008. Income, inequality, and electoral participation.

Beramendi, Pablo, and Christopher J. Income Inequality and Democratic Representation. In Democracy, Inequality, and Representation: A Comparative Perspective, ed. Pablo Beramendi and Christopher J. Anderson, 3–24. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Berinsky, Adam . and Gabriel S. Lenz. Cite this chapter as: Shore J. (2019) Democracies and Their Citizens. In: The Welfare State and the Democratic Citizen. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology.

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2012 Beramendi, Pablo: The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution. Cambridge University Press, Comparative Politics Series. 2008 Beramendi, Pablo and Christopher J. Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Articles and Chapters. Inequality and Democratic Representation: The Road Traveled and the Path Ahead. Anderson, Christopher . and Matthew M. Singer. The Sensitive Left and the Impervious Right: Multilevel Models and the Politics of Inequality, Ideology, and Legitimacy in Europe. Comparative Political Studies 41 (4-5): 564-599. Brunell, Thomas . Anderson, and Rachel K. Cremona.

The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, and economic inequality is on the rise in many other industrialized democracies as well. But the magnitude and pace of the increase differs dramatically across nations. A country’s political system and its institutions play a critical role in determining levels of inequality in a society. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation argues that the reverse is also true—inequality itself shapes political systems and institutions in powerful and often overlooked ways.

In Democracy, Inequality, and Representation, distinguished political scientists and economists use a set of international databases to examine the political causes and consequences of income inequality. The volume opens with an examination of how differing systems of political representation contribute to cross-national variations in levels of inequality. Torben Iverson and David Soskice calculate that taxes and income transfers help reduce the poverty rate in Sweden by over 80 percent, while the comparable figure for the United States is only 13 percent. Noting that traditional economic models fail to account for this striking discrepancy, the authors show how variations in electoral systems lead to very different outcomes.

But political causes of disparity are only one part of the equation. The contributors also examine how inequality shapes the democratic process. Pablo Beramendi and Christopher Anderson show how disparity mutes political voices: at the individual level, citizens with the lowest incomes are the least likely to vote, while high levels of inequality in a society result in diminished electoral participation overall. Thomas Cusack, Iverson, and Philipp Rehm demonstrate that uncertainty in the economy changes voters’ attitudes; the mere risk of losing one’s job generates increased popular demand for income support policies almost as much as actual unemployment does. Ronald Rogowski and Duncan McRae illustrate how changes in levels of inequality can drive reforms in political institutions themselves. Increased demand for female labor participation during World War II led to greater equality between men and women, which in turn encouraged many European countries to extend voting rights to women for the first time.

The contributors to this important new volume skillfully disentangle a series of complex relationships between economics and politics to show how inequality both shapes and is shaped by policy. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation provides deeply nuanced insight into why some democracies are able to curtail inequality—while others continue to witness a division that grows ever deeper.