John D Huber

Exclusion by Elections

Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a new theory of identity politics in elections, explaining why it is difficult for democracies to address rising inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781107182943
• ISBN-10: 1107182948
• Artikelnr.: 48251459

Autorenporträt

John D. Huber's research focuses on understanding how the social, political and institutional context affects the outcomes of democratic processes. Along with numerous articles, he is the author of two previous Cambridge University Press books, Rationalizing Parliament, Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France (1996), and Deliberate Discretion? Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (2002, with Charles Shipan).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why worry about inequality and ethnic politics? Part I. The Theoretical Argument: 3. Social structure and distributive politics in elections
4. A theory of social structure, electoral identities and party systems
5. Inequality, ethnic polarization and the democratic process
Part II. Empirical Evidence for the Argument: 6. Theory and causal identification
7. Income and voting behavior
8. Inequality, ethnic diversity and the ethnification of party systems
9. Social structure, redistribution and democratic transitions
10. Conclusion: inequality and the politics of exclusion.