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The Undeserving Rich : American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution /
"It is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both misleading survey data and past economic conditions. In fact, Americans ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.