Who gets what? : the new politics of insecurity / edited by Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Margaret Weir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenbluth, Frances McCall, editor.

Weir, Margaret, 1952- editor.

Series:

SSRC anxieties of democracy.

SSRC anxieties of democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States--21st century.

Income distribution.

Political culture--United States--21st century.

Political culture.

Polarization (Social sciences)--United States--21st century.

Polarization (Social sciences).

Equality--United States--21st century.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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 from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places-and fragment political parties-hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-88146-7

1-108-88878-X

1-108-87917-9

OCLC:

1276857667