Who Gets What?: The New Politics of Insecurity

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The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places–and fragment political parties–hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies. Contents Figures Tables Author Biographies 1 Introduction: The New Politics of Insecurity PART I PEOPLE 2 Race, Remembrance, and Precarity 3 The End of Human Capital Solidarity? 4 Public Opinion and Reactions to Increasing Income Inequality 5 Engendering Democracy in an Age of Anxiety PART II PLACES 6 Keeping Your Enemies Close 7 America’s Unequal Metropolitan Geography 8 Redistribution and the Politics of Spatial Inequality in America PART III POLITICS 9 Electoral Realignments in the Atlantic World 10 Political Parties in the New Politics of Insecurity Appendix Political Parties in the New Politics of Insecurity 11 The Peculiar Politics of American Insecurity 12 The Anxiety of Precarity 13 Increasing Instability and Uncertainty among American Workers Index