| Preface | ix | |
| 1. | The New Gilded Age | 1 |
| Escalating Economic Inequality | 6 | |
| Interpreting Inequality | 13 | |
| Economic Inequality as a Political Issue | 19 | |
| Inequality and American Democracy | 23 | |
| 2. | The Partisan Political Economy | 29 |
| Partisan Patterns of Income Growth | 31 | |
| A Partisan Coincidence? | 34 | |
| Partisan Differences in Macroeconomic Policy | 42 | |
| Macroeconomic Performance and Income Growth | 47 | |
| Partisan Policies and Post-Tax Income Growth | 54 | |
| Democrats, Republicans, and the Rise of Inequality | 61 | |
| 3. | Class Politics and Partisan Change | 64 |
| In Search of the Working Class | 66 | |
| Has the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party? | 72 | |
| Have Working-Class Whites Become More Conservative? | 78 | |
| Do “Moral Values” Trump Economics? | 83 | |
| Are Religious Voters Distracted from Economic Issues? | 90 | |
| Class Politics, Alive and Well | 93 | |
| 4. | Partisan Biases in Economic Accountability | 98 |
| Myopic Voters | 99 | |
| The Political Timing of Income Growth | 104 | |
| Class Biases in Economic Voting | 110 | |
| The Wealthy Give Something Back: Partisan Biases in Campaign Spending | 116 | |
| Political Consequences of Biased Accountability | 120 | |
| 5. | Do Americans Care about Inequality? | 127 |
| Egalitarian Values | 130 | |
| Rich and Poor | 136 | |
| Perceptions of Inequality | 143 | |
| Facts and Values in the Realm of Inequality | 148 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age.
Contributors: Larry M. Bartels - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2008.
Page number: vii.
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