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All Bad Things Do Not Go Together: A Comment on Echeverri-Gent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2009

Nicolas van de Walle
Nicolas van de Walle
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Cornell University
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John Echeverri-Gent's (2009) fine article in this symposium makes a compelling case for a greater focus on the study of inequality by political scientists. A topic we have too often neglected, its dynamics go to the core of our disciplinary concerns and we clearly should have more to offer to its understanding. APSA is to be commended for supporting the work of the Task Force on Difference, Inequality, and Developing Societies (2008), which Echeverri-Gent led, and which, in large part, informs his article in these pages. It should generate a renewed focus by political scientists on international inequality and on the role of domestic inequality in the development process.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 639 - 643
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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