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The Great Passivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

Lawrence M. Mead
Lawrence M. Mead
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Lawrence M. Mead is professor of politics at New York University (LMM1@mail.nyu.edu)
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According to the APSA report, “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality,” in the United States economic and political inequality are feeding on each another. Since the 1970s, earnings, income, and wealth have become more unequal, while politics is becoming more elitist. Rising inequality is corrupting our democracy, especially through the rising role that money plays in politics. At the same time a more exclusive government exacerbates, or at least tolerates, growing inequality.Lawrence M. Mead testifies regularly to Congress on poverty, welfare, and social policy and has written many books and articles on the politics of poverty and welfare reform, most recently Lifting up the Poor (with Mary Jo Bane) and Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin.

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APSA TASK FORCE REPORT AND COMMENTARIES
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 671 - 675
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© 2004 American Political Science Association

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