The politics of inequality

• Other Authors: Pettinicchio, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
• Series: Research in political sociology ; v. 28.
• Subjects: Equality.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781839093647
• DOI: 10.1108/S0895-9935202128
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages).

In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic forces associated with neoliberalism and global...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Making inequality part of the political and policy agenda
• Chapter 1. How did inequality as a political issue gain and retain such prominence on the Democratic party agenda? / Keith Gunnar Bentele
• Chapter 2. Coalitions that clash: California's climate leadership and the perpetuation of environmental inequality / Joshua A. Basseches, Kaitlyn Rubinstein, and Sarah M. Kulaga
• Part II: The politics of welfare state retrenchment
• Chapter 3. Welfare state recalibration in France and Germany: what role do polarization and inequalities in people's attitudes towards social policies play? / Agnes Blome
• Chapter 4. Stones vs routines: students and politicians in higher education tuition policy / Didem Türkoǧlu
• Chapter 5. Welfare, punishment, and social marginality: understanding the connections / Marco Brydolf-Horwitz and Katherine Beckett
• Part III: The political, social and economic impacts of inequality on vulnerable groups
• Chapter 6. Crises of social reproduction among women of color: the state and local politics of inequality within neoliberal capitalism / Julisa McCoy, Jessica Moronez, Evelyn Pruneda, and Ellen Reese
• Chapter 7. The persistent challenge of HIV & Black MSM in the American South: racial inequality & the LGBTQ community / Ravi K. Perry and Aaron D. Camp
• Chapter 8. From diaspora mobilization to immigrant resistance: comparing Syrian and Yemeni mobilization against inequality at home and abroad / Dana M. Moss
• Part IV: Mobilizing against inequality
• Chapter 9. Occupying against inequality / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora Gaidyte
• Chapter 10. Moral economies, mobilization, and inequality: the case of the 2018 U.S. teachers' strikes / Eric Blanc and Barry Eidlin
• Chapter 11. Living down to expectations: age inequality and youth activism / Thomas V. Maher and Jennifer Earl
• Chapter 12. Creative disappointment: how movements for democracy spawn movements for even more democracy / John Markoff, Hillary Lazar, and Jackie Smith.