Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies by Vicki L Birchfield

Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies by Vicki L Birchfield

Examines patterns of income inequality among 16 advanced democracies from the mid 1970s to the early 2000s and explains why some societies have a large and growing divide between the rich and the poor while others, facing similar global economic pressures, maintain more egalitarian income distributions.

“Employing Brady and Collier’s cutting-edge suggestions (in Rethinking Social Inquiry) for combining quantitative and qualitative methods, Birchfield does a stellar job of showing how societal institutions and cultural values interact to foster and justify sharply different levels of economic inequality among advanced industrial societies”

—Charles Lockhart, Texas Christian University

“Birchfield sheds a strong and clear light on the institutional and ideological responses to rising income inequality in the world’s leading democracies. In an elegant comparative framework, she explores the cultural foundations of enduring differences in those responses. The subject matter is vitally important, and the book could not be more timely.”

—Louis W. Pauly, Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Toronto

“Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies is a highly original study that breaks new ground as it demonstrates, through both quantitative and qualitative methods, that political ideas and values are just as significant as questions of institutional organization and interest-based calculations are in explaining the trajectory of income inequality in advanced industrialized democracies. The book is certain to have a big impact across a wide range of fields.”

—Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and Professor of International Relations, Boston University

Vicki L. Birchfield is Associate Professor and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence at The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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ISBN 13	9780271034416
ISBN 10	0271034416
Title	Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies
Author	Vicki L Birchfield
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2012-06-15
Number of pages	256
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