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Title Who gets what? : the new politics of insecurity / edited by Frances Rosenbluth, Margaret Weir
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2021]

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Series Anxieties of democracy
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
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 07, 2021)
Subject Income distribution -- United States -- 21st century
Equality -- United States -- 21st century
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States -- 21st century
Political culture -- United States -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General.
Equality
Income distribution
Polarization (Social sciences)
Political culture
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenbluth, Frances McCall editor
Weir, Margaret, 1952- editor.
LC no. 2021024977
ISBN 9781108879170
1108879179