Entrenchment : wealth, power, and the constitution of democratic societies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Starr, Paul (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Oligarchy. Wealth > Political aspects. Liberalism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Stakes of Entrenchment; 1. UNDERSTANDING ENTRENCHMENT; Strategic entrenchment; Lock-in and the costs of change; Social structure and cultural entrenchment; Enabling constraints, traps, and contradictions; 2. ARISTOCRACY AND INHERITED WEALTH; Wealth, power, and rules of inheritance; The political origins of primogeniture; Patrimonial inheritance and oligarchic entrenchment; Entrenching a republic: The eighteenth-century solution and its limits
3. RACIAL SLAVERY AS AN ENTRENCHED CONTRADICTIONThe colonial divergence; Constitutional entrenchment and the costs of change; Slaveholders and national power; Overcoming slavery's entrenchment; Entrenching abolition-but not equality; 4. THE CONSERVATIVE DESIGN OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY; Entrenchment of electoral rules; Counter-majoritarian entrenchment: Supreme courts and central banks; Entrenchment through international treaties; 5. ENTRENCHING PROGRESSIVE CHANGE; Varieties of social protection; The great conjuncture; The curious case of progressive taxation; Lock-in and lock-out
6. DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICS OF ENTRENCHMENTOligarchy as populism; Constitutional capture; Democracy's stress tests; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z