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Democratic equality :

1281995827

1442673826

9781281995827

9781442673823

0802047874

0802083323

9780802047878

9780802083326

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Democratic equality :

[Book]

what went wrong? /

edited by Edward Broadbent.

London :

University of Toronto Press,

[2001]

©2001

1 online resource (xxvi, 263 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ten propositions about equality and democracy / Edward Broadbent -- Understanding the universal welfare state: an institutional approach / Bo Rothstein -- The party's over: what now? / John Richards -- Why not socialism? / G.A. Cohen -- Welfare states and democratic citizenship / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- Equality, community, and sustainability / Ian Angus -- Rethinking equality and equity: Canadian children and the social union / Jane Jenson -- How growing income inequality affects us all / Armine Yalnizyan -- American style welfare reform: inequality in the Clinton era / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Equality and welfare reform in Blair's Britain / Ruth Lister -- News media and civic equality: watch dogs, mad dogs, or lap dogs? / Robert A. Hackett -- Growing inequality: what the world thinks / Daniel Savas -- The economic consequences of financial inequality / Jim Stanford.

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Are the world's oldest democracies failing? For most of the past fifty years democratic governments made determined and successful efforts at overcoming the significant inequalities that are the by-product of a capitalist economy. During this period a new concept of democratic citizenship that added social and economic rights to the liberal legacy of political and civil liberties established roots in most North Atlantic democracies. Since the 1980s this notion of democratic citizenship has been challenged ideologically to such a degree that through either major modification or complete elimination of programs, equality as a fundamental democratic goal is disappearing in many nations -- particularly in the Anglo-American democracies. In this extraordinary collection, top scholars in political science, sociology, philosophy and economics, discuss this radical shift towards inequality in an age of mass capital globalization. Wide ranging in topic yet coherent in approach, Inequality and the Modern Democratic State comprises thirteen essays, including Ed Broadbent's "Ten Propositions about Equality and Democracy", Robert Hackett's "Watch Dogs, Mad Dogs, or Lap Dogs?: News Media and Civic Equality" and Barbara Ehrenreich's "Inequality in the Clinton Era". Many European democracies, argue the contributors, have adapted to new circumstance in the global economy without resorting to policies that actively promote inequality. While differing in some important details on solutions, they all contend that the political decision-making process is of critical importance in entrenching, or battling, an escalating inequality that is neither necessary nor desirable.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

JSTOR

22573/ctt55qr3

Democratic equality.

9780802047878

Democracy.

Equality.

Welfare state.

Démocratie.

État providence.

Inégalité sociale.

Democracy.

Democratie.

Demokratie.

Equality.

Ongelijkheid.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Civil Rights.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Human Rights.

Ungleichheit.

Welfare state.

JPFF

POL-- 004000

POL-- 035010

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Broadbent, Ed,1936-

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