Poverty, inequality, and democracy
著者
書誌事項
Poverty, inequality, and democracy
（A journal of democracy book）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The rise of populism in new democracies, especially in Latin America, has brought renewed urgency to the question of how liberal democracy deals with issues of poverty and inequality. Citizens who feel that democracy failed to improve their economic condition are often vulnerable to the appeal of political leaders with authoritarian tendencies. To counteract this trend, liberal democracies must establish policies that will reduce socioeconomic disparities without violating liberal principles, interfering with economic growth, or ignoring the consensus of the people. "Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy" addresses the complicated philosophical and moral issues surrounding the distribution of economic goods in free societies as well as the empirical relationships between democratization and trends in poverty and inequality. This volume also discusses the variety of welfare-state policies that have been adopted in different regions of the world. The book's distinguished group of contributors provides a succinct synthesis of the scholarship on this topic.
They address such broad issues as whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies must make as they decide how to deal with inequality. Chapters focus on particular regions or countries, examining how problems of poverty and inequality have been handled (or mishandled) by newer democracies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy will prove vital reading for all students of world politics, political economy, and democracy's global prospects. Contributors include: Dan Banik, Nancy Bermeo, Dorothee Bohle, Nathan Converse, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Francis Fukuyama, Bela Greskovits, Stephan Haggard, Ethan B. Kapstein, Robert R. Kaufman, Taekyoon Kim, Huck-Ju Kwon, Jooha Lee, Peter Lewis, Beatriz Magaloni, Mitchell A. Orenstein, Marc F. Plattner, Charles Simkins, Alejandro Toledo, and Ilcheong Yi.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: What Are the Issues?
Chapter 1. Dealing with Inequality
Chapter 2. Does Electoral Democracy Boost Economic Equality?
Chapter 3. Why Democracies Fail
Chapter 4. Latin America: Democracy with Development
Part II: Latin America and Eastern Europe
Chapter 5. The Latin American Experience
Chapter 6. Aiding Latin America's Poor
Chapter 7. Postcommunist Welfare States
Chapter 8. East-Central Europe's Quandary
Chapter 9. How Regions Differ
Part III: Africa and Asia
Chapter 10. Growth Without Prosperity in Africa
Chapter 11. South African Disparities
Chapter 12. Growth and Hunger in India
Chapter 13. "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
Index
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