Unequal Democracies by Noam Lupu, Jonas Pontusson - 9781009428644

Unequal DemocraciesPublic Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality\nAuthor(s): Noam Lupu, Jonas Pontusson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009428644, 978-1009428644\nSynopsis\nWhile economic inequality has risen in every affluent democracy in North America and Western Europe, the last three decades have also been characterized by falling or stagnating levels of state-led economic redistribution. Why have democratically accountable governments not done more to distribute top-income shares to citizens with low- and middle-income? Unequal Democracies offers answers to this question, bringing together contributions that focus on voters and their demands for redistribution with contributions on elites and unequal representation that is biased against less-affluent citizens. While large and growing bodies of research have developed around each of these perspe.