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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 | |