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Preface ix Chapter 1. The New Gilded Age 1 Escalating EconomicInequality 6 Interpreting Inequality 13 Economic Inequality as a Po liticalIssue 19 Inequality and American Democracy 23 Chapter 2. The PartisanPolitical Economy 29 Partisan Patterns of Income Growth 31 A PartisanCoincidence? 34 Partisan Differences in Macroeconomic Policy 42Macroeconomic Per for mance and Income Growth 47 Partisan Policies and Post-Tax Income Growth 54 Democrats, Republicans, and the Rise of In equality 61Chapter 3. Class Politics and Partisan Change 64 In Search of theWorking Class 66 Has the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party?72 Have Working- Class Whites Become More Conservative? 78 Do "MoralValues" Trump Economics? 83 Are Religious Voters Distracted from EconomicIssues? 90 Class Politics, Alive and Well 93 Chapter 4. Partisan Biasesin Economic Accountability 98 Myopic Voters 99 The Political Timing ofIncome Growth 104 Class Biases in Economic Voting 110 The Wealthy GiveSomething Back: Partisan Biases in Campaign Spending 116 PoliticalConsequences of Biased Accountability 120 Chapter 5. Do Americans Careabout In equality? 127 Egalitarian Values 130 Rich and Poor 136Perceptions of Inequality 143 Facts and Values in the Realm of In equality148 Chapter 6. Homer Gets a Tax Cut 162 The Bush Tax Cuts 164 PublicSupport for the Tax Cuts 170 Unenlightened Self- Interest 176 The Impact ofPolitical Information 181 Chump Change 186 Into the Sunset 193 Chapter7. The Strange Appeal of Estate Tax Repeal 197 Public Support for Estate TaxRepeal 198 Is Public Support for Repeal a Product of Misinformation? 205Did Interest Groups Manufacture Public Antipathy to the Estate Tax? 214Elite Ideology and the Politics of Estate Tax Repeal 217 Chapter 8. TheEroding Minimum Wage 223 The Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage 227Public Support for the Minimum Wage 229 The Politics of Inaction 232Democrats, Unions, and the Eroding Minimum Wage 239 The Earned Income TaxCredit 246 Reversing the Tide 247 Chapter 9. Economic Inequality and Political Representation 252 Ideological Representation 254 UnequalResponsiveness 257 Unequal Responsiveness on Social Issues: The Case ofAbortion 265 Partisan Differences in Repre sen ta tion 267 Why Are the PoorUnrepresented? 275 10. Unequal Democracy 283 Who Governs? 285 PartisanPolitics and the "Have- Nots" 288 Political Obstacles to Economic Equality294 The City of Utmost Necessity 298 Selected References 305 Index 317