Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and the Quality of Democracy in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6317864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred Stepan (Columbia University), Juan J Linz (Yale University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 841-856 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592711003756 |
| OpenAlex | W2008571786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 27 |
When Jeffrey Isaac approached us to review some recent works in American politics from a comparative perspective, we gladly accepted the task, believing it important to help overcome what some see as the “splendid isolation” of American politics. Indeed, the invitation arrived at a propitious time because, after completing our most recent book, we critically reflected on the fact that we had unfortunately written almost nothing on the oldest, and one of the most diverse, democracies in the world, the United States. We thus agreed to contribute some thoughts on the matter, recognizing the limits of our knowledge of the entire field of American politics, but acknowledging, too, our belief that the current distancing of the study of America from the analysis of other democracies impoverishes modern political science
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The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Unequal Democracies
The Role of the Law in the American Political Economy
John Rawls
Putting Federalism in Its Place
The Political Economies of Red States
Drift and conversion
The American Political Economy
Understanding Big Government
Weakness of Political Will
American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective
Racialized Anti-Statism and the Failure of the American State
Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan
Upper Class Bias and Class Conflict in America
Race, Poverty, and the Redistribution of Voting Rights
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data
Differences That Matter
Corruption as systemic political decay
Compared to what
Morality policy processes in advanced industrial democracies
The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America
Institutions and Political Restraint
Universal Health Coverage
Lessons for the United States From Single-Payer Systems
Who Benefits From Federalism Claims in Federal Court
Subnational Inequality in Latin America
Toward the permissive society? Morality policy agendas and policy directions in Western democracies
Regulation and regime
Income inequality and women’s descriptive representation
Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares
The American Precariat
Checks and Balances, Veto Exceptionalism, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom
Institutional Friction and Policy Responsiveness
Police Work
China's Political Economy and Political Science
Comparing America
Polanyi's Revenge
Unwritten Rules
The Two Cultures of Democratic Theory
Class Bias in Voter Turnout, Representation, and Income Inequality
Off-Balance
Democratic Representation and the Constituency Paradox
Racial Winners and Losers in American Party Politics
Ripples from the First Wave
New Deal Liberalism and Racial Liberalism in the Mass Public, 1937–1968
The Insecure American
The Equalizing Hand
Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies
Forceful Federalism against American Racial Inequality
Alfred Stepan and the Study of Comparative Politics
The Durability of Pierson’s Theory about the Durability of the Welfare State
Punching Above Their Weight Through Policy Learning
Institutions and Morality Policy in Western Democracies
Inequality and the Altruistic Life
Racial battle lines and American political institutions
Constitutions of the countries of the world
What's fair?
Filibustering
Parting at the Crossroads
Federalism and Democracy in Latin America
Bicameralism
The rules of the game
Chapter 3 Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America
Veto Players
Filibuster
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
Historical institutionalism in comparative politics
Federalism and the Welfare State
Crafting State-Nations
Patterns of democracy
Editors' Preface
The Dark Side of American Liberalism and Felony Disenfranchisement
Legislative Obstruction
Decision Making in Political Systems
The Value of a Vote
Patterns of Economic Inequality in Western Democracies
Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |