Paper · 2010 · intermediate level
Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
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- Politics & Society, 38(2), 152–204
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In plain language
Peer-reviewed companion to the authors' trade book, arguing U.S. inequality since the 1970s reflects deliberate policy choices driven by an increasingly organized business lobby, not just impersonal market forces.
Technical summary
Political-organization account of rising top-income shares: deregulation, tax policy, and weakened labor-law enforcement driven by asymmetric interest-group mobilization ('organizational drift').
Key takeaways
- Companion academic-journal version of Hacker & Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics book.
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- Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class — Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, 2010
- Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens — Martin Gilens & Benjamin I. Page, 2014
- Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age — Larry M. Bartels, 2008