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Equality in America
副标题: A View from the Top
ISBN: 9780674259614
出版年: 1985-1
页数: 348
定价: $ 35.03
内容简介
A model of meticulous and incisive scholarship, "Equality in America" dissects American attitudes toward equality by placing those beliefs in historical context and demonstrating a relationship between political and economic equality. The book is based on a study of leaders from all significant sectors of American society, including top business and labor leaders, those highest in the media and in political parties, and leaders from the feminist and civil rights movements. The book takes on the thorny puzzle of how economic inequality, which is the inevitable result of a free economy, coexists with political equality, which is a necessary ingredient of democracy. In the course of their argument, the authors take issue with free market economists and Marxist analysts, both of whom treat self-interest as the driving force behind individual and collective behavior, leaving little place for the role of beliefs and values.
作者简介
A model of meticulous and incisive scholarship, Equality in America dissects American attitudes toward equality by placing those beliefs in historical context and demonstrating a relationship between political and economic equality. The book is based on a study of leaders from all significant sectors of American society, including top business and labor leaders, those highest in the media and in political parties, and leaders from the feminist and civil rights movements.
The book takes on the thorny puzzle of how economic inequality, which is the inevitable result of a free economy, coexists with political equality, which is a necessary ingredient of democracy. In the course of their argument, the authors take issue with free market economists and Marxist analysts, both of whom treat self-interest as the driving force behind individual and collective behavior, leaving little place for the role of beliefs and values.
Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University.
Gary R. Orren is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Other HUP Books by Sidney Verba
Elites and the Idea of Equality: A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States
Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics
The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation
Contest of Symbols: The Sociology of Election Campaigns through Israeli Ephemera
Other HUP Books by Gary Orren
Elites and the Idea of Equality: A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States
