The Undeserving Rich : American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution / Leslie McCall, Northwestern University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCall, Leslie, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

United States.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Introduction: thinking about income inequality

2. Beyond the opposition between opportunity and inequality: theories of beliefs about inequality from the nineteenth century to the present

3. The emergence of a new social issue: media coverage of income inequality and social class in the United States, 1980-2010

4. American beliefs about income inequality: what, when, who, and why

5. Why do Americans care about income inequality? The role of opportunity

6. Social policy preferences in the era of rising inequality

7. Conclusion: a new era of beliefs about inequality.

Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Un/Deserving Rich; Method; Organization of the Book; 1 Beyond the Opposition between Opportunity and Inequality; Theories of Beliefs about Inequality; Beliefs in Principle: The Multiple Spheres Approach; Historical Foundations of Beliefs in Principle: The Tolerance Perspective; Beliefs about Inequality in Practice, I: Ambivalence in the Postwar Period; Beliefs about Inequality in Practice, II: Ignorance in the Era of Rising Inequality; The Un/Deserving Rich; 2 The Emergence of a New Social Issue.

Defining Media Coverage of Income InequalityNews Media Coverage of Income Inequality; Articles with Subject Terms on Economic Inequality, Social Class, and Job Insecurity; Articles on Inequality from an Expanded List of Subject Terms; Why Is Inequality Covered?; Appendix A: Article Selection Methods; Appendix B: Extended List of Search Terms; Appendix C: Additional Results; 3 American Beliefs about Income Inequality; What Do Americans Believe?; Do American Beliefs Change over Time?; Why Do American Beliefs Change?; Who Cares about Income Inequality?

Macroeconomic Effects on Attitudinal ShiftsEffects of Inequality and the Media on Attitudinal Shifts; The Un/Deserving Rich; Appendix; Sample Definitions and Weights; Survey Question Bias; Statistical Models of Descriptive Trends; Variables and Definitions; Analytic Models and the Typical Respondent; 4 Why Do Americans Care about Income Inequality?; Five Tropes of Opportunity; Beliefs about Opportunity and Inequality; Bootstraps versus Equal Treatment Opportunity; Just Deserts Opportunity; Rising Tide Opportunity; Group-Based Equal Treatment Opportunity.

The Connection between Opportunity and InequalityAppendix; 5 Americans' Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality1; Policy Framework; Social Policy Preferences; No Change in Dissatisfaction with the Level of Inequality?; Increase in Desire for Government Redistribution?; No Change in Desire for Government Action?; Increase in Desire to Reduce Inequality of Opportunity?; Increase in Desire for Other Government Programs?; Increase in Desire for Regulation of Employer Pay Practices?; Increase in Desire for Not-Sure-What?; Broadening the Policy Discussion on Inequality; Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.

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Print version: McCall, Leslie, 1964- author. Undeserving rich.

ISBN:

9781107348110

1107348110

9781107341869

1107341868

9781139225687

1139225685

9781299408951

1299408958

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99964187807

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