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Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality

Autor Benjamin I. Page, Lawrence R. Jacobs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2009
Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America’s fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably.
At every income level and in both major political parties, majorities embrace conservative egalitarianism—a philosophy that prizes individualism and self-reliance as well as public intervention to help Americans pursue these ideals on a level playing field. Drawing on hundreds of opinion studies spanning more than seventy years, including a new comprehensive survey, Page and Jacobs reveal that this worldview translates to broad support for policies aimed at narrowing the gap between rich and poor and creating genuine opportunity for all. They find, for example, that across economic, geographical, and ideological lines, most Americans support higher minimum wages, improved public education, wider access to universal health insurance coverage, and the use of tax dollars to fund these programs.
In this surprising and heartening assessment, Page and Jacobs provide our new administration with a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues our nation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226644554
ISBN-10: 0226644553
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 20 line drawings, 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Benjamin I. Page is the Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision Making in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

Cuprins

Preface
Chapter 1.  No Class War
Chapter 2.  Caring about Economic Inequality
Chapter 3.  Looking to Government for Help
Chapter 4.  Paying the Bill
Chapter 5.  Will Policy Makers Respond?
Appendix: The Inequality Survey
Notes
Index


Recenzii

"Helps to clarify why alarmist denunciations of higher taxation and (shudder!) 'redistribution of the wealth' just won’t cut it. The publication of Class War? What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality by Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs could not be better timed."

"This is a small book with very big aims. . . . It should be read . . . as a polemic, as a challenge, as a call to arms."—Times Higher Education Supplement

"Page and Jacobs offer an excellent synthesis of Americans' majority views, demonstrating, at least in the short term, broad agreement on an active government role in reducing inequality, within the context of providing opportunity in a free-market economy."

"... succeeds in throwing off the shackles of academic discourse and speaking directly to readers, but its effectiveness nevertheless rests on meticulous analysis of survey data and opinion polling on economic equality."