Chapter 10. Democracy and Distributive Politics in India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Institutions
5. Chapter 1. Welfare Regimes and Redistribution in the South 19
6. Chapter 2. Distributional Confl icts in Mature Welfare States 43
7. Chapter 3. The Politics of Tax Structure 72
8. Chapter 4. AIDS, Inequality, and Access to Antiretroviral Treatment 99
9. Chapter 5. Distributive Politics and Formal Institutions in New Democracies 118
10. Part II. Individuals
11. Chapter 6. Religion and Social Insurance Evidence from the United States, 1970 – 2002 149
12. Chapter 7. Moral Values and Distributive Politics An Equilibrium Analysis of the 2004 U.S. Election 186
13. Chapter 8. Giving the People What They Want? Age, Class, and Distribution in the United States 221
14. Part III. Coalitions
15. Chapter 9. Good Distribution, Bad Delivery, and Ugly Politics 245
16. Chapter 10. Democracy and Distributive Politics in India 280
17. Chapter 11. The Political Uses of Public Opinion Lessons from the Estate Tax Repeal 298
18. About the Contributors 341
19. Index 343