Is Inequality a Threat to Democracy?
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Many believe that the government bears an active role and responsibility on how wealth and income are generated and distributed. With the rapid increase in income inequality in a number of the advanced democracies, it has now become a concern on whether or not this should be considered as a threat. This chapter first examines what types of equality brings concern to the people. An outline of a normative theory of legitimacy which roots regime legitimacy in the satisfaction of an “interest tracking” condition and a political theory suggesting how income inequality can weaken democratic rule is then given.
First Page
34
Source Publication
The Unsustainable American State
Source Editors/Authors
Lawrence Jacobs, Desmond King
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Recommended Citation
John A. Ferejohn,
Is Inequality a Threat to Democracy?,
The Unsustainable American State
34
(2009).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/496
