Exclusion by Elections: Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XB1D9DY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 479 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author John D. . Along with numerous articles, he is the author of two previous Cambridge University Press books, Rationalizing Parliament, Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France (1996), and Deliberate Discretion? Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (2002, with Charles Shipan). Huber's research focuses on understanding how the social, political and institutional context affects the outcomes of democratic processes
Thus, contrary to workhorse theoretical models of redistribution in social science, where inequality should be related to more redistribution, the argument here is that inequality often makes it more difficult for democracies to adopt policies that redress inequality. The book argues that in societies with even modest levels of ethnic diversity, inequality invites ethnic politics, and ethnic politics results in less redistribution than class politics. The author explores the argument empirically by examining cross-national patterns of voting behaviour, redistribution and democratic transitions.. Instead, incentives in electoral competition can lead to a situation where inequality becomes reinforced by inequality itself. Exclusion by Elections develops a theory about the circumstances under which 'class identities' as opposed to 'ethnic identities' become salient in democratic politics, and links this theory to issues of inequality and government efforts to redress the balance
Along with numerous articles, he is the author of two previous Cambridge University Press books, Rationalizing Parliament, Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France (1996), and Deliberate Discretion? Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (2002, with Charles Shipan). Huber's research focuses on understanding how the social, political and institutional context