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Divide and Deal : the Politics of Distribution in Democracies.
Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 9780814740583_Shapiro_front; 978-0-8147-4058-3-text.pdf; Contents; Introduction; Part I Institutions; 1 Welfare Regimes and Redistribution in the South; 2 Distributional Confl icts in Mature Welfare States; 3 The Politics of Tax Structure; 4 AIDS, Inequality, and Access to Antiretroviral Treatment; 5 Distributive Politics and Formal Institutions in New Democracies: The Effect of Electoral Rules on Budget Voting in the Russian State Duma, 1994
- 2003; Part II Individuals; 6 Religion and Social Insurance: Evidence from the United States, 1970
- 2002.
- 7 Moral Values and Distributive Politics: An Equilibrium Analysis of the 2004 U.S. Election8 Giving the People What They Want? Age, Class, and Distribution in the United States; Part III Coalitions; 9 Good Distribution, Bad Delivery, and Ugly Politics: The Traumatic Beginnings of Germany's Health Care System; 10 Democracy and Distributive Politics in India; 11 The Political Uses of Public Opinion: Lessons from the Estate Tax Repeal; About the Contributors; Index.