{"product_id":"inequality-democracy-and-economic-development-paperback-9780521576758","title":"Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development (Paperback) 9780521576758","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInequality, Democracy, and Economic Development\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1997 volume examines the relationship between inequality and democracy, looking at questions raised as early as Aristotle through to the present day.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eManus I. Midlarsky (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521576758, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 December 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e382 pages, 9 b\/w illus.  39 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An excellent resource for upper-level courses in politics, sociology, and economics; also very useful for scholars working in the area of status inequities and global political systems.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.\"    Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy is the relationship between inequality and democracy so compelling to the contemporary social scientist? This 1997 volume addresses questions that were raised as early as the time of Aristotle and through Marx to the present. Theoretical lacunae are explored, as are major current policy concerns. The book focuses on the sources of democracy, the relationship between economic development and thresholds of democracy, and finally on responses to democratization. Of course, definitions of democracy have varied over an extraordinarily wide range, as have conceptions of inequality, and the reader will find such variations reflected in the contributions to this volume. Descriptions of democracy vary from an emphasis on equality of participation for all citizens in decision making, to more complex indices emphasizing competitiveness and civil liberties. The contributors to this volume provide the kind of multidimensional analysis which is essential to a comprehensive treatment of the relationship between inequality, democracy, and economic development.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Manus I. Midlarsky\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Early Bases of Democracy: 1. Democracy before Athens Kenneth A. Bollen and Pamela M. Paxton\u003cbr\u003e 2. Environmental influences on democracy: aridity, warfare and land inequality Manus I. Midlarsky\u003cbr\u003e 3. Democracy and proto-modernity: technoecological influences on the growth of political and civil rights Edward Crenshaw\u003cbr\u003e 4. Inequality and democracy in the anthropolitical record Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember and Bruce Russett\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Economic Development and Thresholds of Democracy: 5. Economic determinants of democracy Edward N. Muller\u003cbr\u003e 6. Informational inequality and democracy in the New World Order Miles Simpson\u003cbr\u003e 7. Modernization and thresholds of democracy: evidence for a common path and process Michael Coppedge\u003cbr\u003e 8. Markets and inequality in the transition from state socialism Victor Nee and Raymond V. Liedka\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Responses to Democratization: 9. Democracy and inequality: tracking welfare spending in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea Steve Chan\u003cbr\u003e 10. Political regimes and industrial wages: a cross-national analysis Mark Gasiorowski\u003cbr\u003e 11. Social responses to neoliberal reforms in Eastern Europe in the 1990s Béla Greskovits\u003cbr\u003e 12. Market, state, and citizenship in new democracies Giuseppe DiPalma\u003cbr\u003e 13. Conclusion: paradoxes of democracy Manus I. 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