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Author Bartels, Larry M., 1956- author.

Title Unequal democracy : the political economy of the new Gilded Age / Larry M. Bartels.

Edition Second edition.
Publication Info. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2016]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1768110~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  330.973 BAR    AVAILABLE
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Description xix, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary This revised and expanded edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama's second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy, partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-383) and index.
Subject United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Political culture -- United States -- History.
Social classes -- Political aspects -- United States.
Power (Social sciences) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- United States.
ISBN 9780691172842 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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