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[https://news.uchicago.edu/story/economic-inequality-leads-democratic-erosion-study-finds by Sarah Steimer 17/1/25 Uchicago News] | [https://news.uchicago.edu/story/economic-inequality-leads-democratic-erosion-study-finds by Sarah Steimer 17/1/25 Uchicago News] | ||
According to study coauthor University of Chicago Prof. Susan Stokes, the research team was interested in situating the phenomenon of backsliding democracies in time: Why, in the early part of the 21st century, are we seeing power-grabbing, elected heads of government in two dozen countries? | According to study coauthor University of Chicago Prof. Susan Stokes, the research team was interested in situating the phenomenon of backsliding democracies in time: Why, in the early part of the 21st century, are we seeing power-grabbing, elected heads of government in two dozen countries? | ||
=====How political ideas keep economic inequality going===== | |||
[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-book-explores-how-economic-inequality-is-perpetuated/ by Christina Pazzanese 3/3/20 The Harvard Gazette] | |||
As the gulf between the haves and the have nots continues to widen, the roiling debate over economic inequality has become a political prime mover in the U.S. and across Europe. French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 landmark analysis of Western economic inequality, “Capital in the 21st Century,” became a must-read in both popular and academic circles. | |||
