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| Preface | |
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| The New Gilded Age | |
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| Escalating Economic Inequality | |
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| Interpreting Inequality | |
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| Economic Inequality as a Political Issue | |
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| Inequality and American Democracy | |
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| The Partisan Political Economy | |
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| Partisan Patterns of Income Growth | |
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| A Partisan Coincidence? | |
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| Partisan Differences in Macroeconomic Policy | |
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| Macroeconomic Performance and Income Growth | |
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| Partisan Policies and Post-Tax Income Growth | |
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| Democrats, Republicans, and the Rise of Inequality | |
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| Class Politics and Partisan Change | |
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| In Search of the Working Class | |
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| Has the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party? | |
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| Have Working-Class Whites Become More Conservative? | |
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| Do “Moral Values” Trump Economics? | |
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| Are Religious Voters Distracted from Economic Issues? | |
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| Class Politics, Alive and Well | |
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| Partisan Biases in Economic Accountability | |
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| Myopic Voters | |
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| The Political Timing of Income Growth | |
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| Class Biases in Economic Voting | |
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| The Wealthy Give Something Back: Partisan Biases in Campaign Spending | |
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| Political Consequences of Biased Accountability | |
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| Do Americans Care about Inequality? | |
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| Egalitarian Values | |
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| Rich and Poor | |
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| Perceptions of Inequality | |
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| Facts and Values in the Realm of Inequality | |
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| Homer Gets a Tax Cut | |
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| The Bash Tax Cuts | |
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| Public Support for the Tax Cuts | |
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| Unenlightened Self-Interest | |
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| The Impact of Political Information | |
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| Chump Change | |
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| Into the Sunset | |
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| The Strange Appeal of Estate Tax Repeal | |
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| Public Support for Estate Tax Repeal | |
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| Is Public Support for Repeal a Product of Misinformation? | |
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| Did Interest Groups Manufacture Public Antipathy to the Estate Tax? | |
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| Elite Ideology and the Politics of Estate Tax Repeal | |
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| The Eroding Minimum Wage | |
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| The Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage | |
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| Public Support for the Minimum Wage | |
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| The Politics of Inaction | |
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| Democrats, Unions, and the Eroding Minimum Wage | |
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| The Earned Income Tax Credit | |
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| Reversing the Tide | |
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| Economic Inequality and Political Representation | |
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| Ideological Representation | |
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| Unequal Responsiveness | |
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| Unequal Responsiveness on Social Issues: The Case of Abortion | |
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| Partisan Differences in Representation | |
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| Why Are the Poor Unrepresented? | |
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| Unequal Democracy | |
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| Who Governs? | |
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| Partisan Politics and the “Have-Nots” | |
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| Political Obstacles to Economic Equality | |
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| The City of Utmost Necessity | |
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| Selected References | |
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| Index | |