Leslie Mccall

The Undeserving Rich

American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution

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Produktbeschreibung

McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107699823
• ISBN-10: 1107699827
• Artikelnr.: 36956849

Autorenporträt

Leslie McCall is Professor of Sociology and Political Science, as well as Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, at Northwestern University. She is the author of Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy (2001). Her work on economic inequality has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Signs, the Annual Review of Sociology, Perspectives on Politics, Economic Geography and the Socio-Economic Review, as well as in several edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: thinking about income inequality; 1. Beyond the opposition
between opportunity and inequality: theories of American beliefs about
inequality from the nineteenth century to the present; 2. The emergence of
a new social issue: media coverage of economic inequality and social class
in the United States, 1980-2010; 3. American beliefs about income
inequality: what, when, who, and why; 4. Why do Americans care about income
inequality? The role of opportunity; 5. Americans' social policy
preferences in the era of rising inequality; Conclusion: a new era of
beliefs about inequality.