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Comment on “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2006

Stephen Earl Bennett
Stephen Earl Bennett
Affiliation:
University of Southern Indiana
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Extract

The American Political Science Association's (APSA) Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy (2004) asserts that inequality is on the rise in the U.S., and democracy's future may be dim. These assertions are allegedly supported by empirical evidence.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 51 - 54
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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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