Politics and Privilege: How the Status Wars Sustain Inequality - Paperback
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In the United States, the bottom 50 percent of households hold only 1 percent of the nation's wealth. Scholars and commentators have long viewed democracy as the antidote to economic inequality, but US electoral politics bears little resemblance to a struggle between the haves and the have-nots. What makes extreme disparities of wealth and income so persistent, and why has the political process...
Rory McVeigh is the Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame. His books include The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment (Columbia, 2019).
William Carbonaro is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Chang Liu is a graduate student in sociology at the...Contributor(s)
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