This panel examines the progress that has been made toward building coalitional movements and durable models of advocacy and activism, both today and in the past, and what remains to be done.
Panelists examine how parties, politicians, and policymakers operate in practice and what is required to confront deep social and economic divisions on the one hand and represent broad, popular interests on the other.
This panel provides a broad introduction to the latest work on coalitions – what they are, why they are so important yet often misunderstood and difficult to achieve, and what needs to be done to move forward in creating broad-based change in the future.
In this blog post, Charlotte Bartels and Dirk Neumann, the authors of a new Stone Center Working Paper, discuss how long-run and annual redistribution diverge in various welfare states, and the implications for policymaking.
In this research spotlight, a study by Bennett Callaghan and his coauthors, Michael Kraus and John Dovidio, examines how voters of different social classes evaluate interpersonal qualities.
In this presentation, Branko Milanovic presents an overview of trends in global income inequality, both between and within countries, from the early 1800s to the present.
In this presentation, Michael Kraus examines the social psychological underpinnings of beliefs about inequality and related policy preferences.
In this presentation, Leslie McCall critically examines common assumptions underlying how Americans think about issues of economic inequality and related policies to reduce inequality.
A. Lindh and L. McCall. Annual Review of Sociology. vol. 46, no. 1. pp. 419–441. 2020.
In his New York Times column, Paul Krugman discusses the ways in which huge disparities in income and wealth in America translate into comparable disparities in political influence.