Democracy and capitalism: Structure, agency, and organized combat

Politics and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-254

  Jacobs, Lawrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Democracy; Inequality; Oligarchy; Political science; Representation; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952618075     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329210365048     Document Type: Article

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2. Ibid., 12-14.
3. Ibid., 17.
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21. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, eds., Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (New York: Russell Sage, 2005).
22. Among participants in this symposium, Jacob Hacker was a valued member of the Task Force.
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27. Ibid., 154.
28. Ibid., 174.
29. Ibid., 175, 182.
30. Ibid., 182.
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32. Hacker and Pierson, "Winner-Take-All Politics," 167.
33. Ibid., 154.
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69. Ibid., 182-185.
70. Ibid., 187-189.