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Challenging Inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

Margaret Weir
Margaret Weir
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Margaret Weir is professor of political science and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution ([email protected])
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Together, the final reports of the APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy and its three working groups constitute a remarkable resource for students of contemporary American politics. Most striking in these materials is the depiction of a reinforcing cycle of political and economic inequality. The task force report argues that inequalities in political voice reverberate in patterns of governance, which in turn give rise to public policies that reinforce political inequalities.Margaret Weir has written widely on social policy and politics in the United States and is the author of several books, including Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. The author would like to thank Jennifer Hochschild for helpful comments on an earlier draft.

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APSA TASK FORCE REPORT AND COMMENTARIES
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 677 - 681
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© 2004 American Political Science Association

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