The economic other : inequality in the American political imagination /
There is a puzzling disconnect between rising income inequality and public opinion in the United States. One might think, and many politicians argue, that as inequality increases the public on the losing side of the inequality divide would demand more redistributive action from government. But many...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The politics of social comparison
- Part I: Imagining the economic other. Inequality in the social mind ; Revealing the social mind ; The disadvantaged other ; The advantaged other
- Part II: Responding to the economic other. Social comparison and status perceptions ; Social comparison and support for redistribution
- Part III: Insulated from inequality. Why Americans don't look up ; Why Americans would rather look down ; How looking up keeps us down ; The power of social comparison.