TY - BOOK ID - 101474994 TI - Inequality and the fading of redistributive politics AU - Banting, Keith G. AU - Myles, John PY - 2013 SN - 0774825995 132266840X 0774826010 9780774825993 9780774826013 1299777104 9781299777101 9780774826006 9780774826013 9780774826020 0774826029 PB - Vancouver: University of British Columbia press, DB - UniCat KW - Equality KW - Welfare economics. KW - Distributive justice KW - Canada KW - Social policy. KW - Distribution (Economic theory) KW - Justice KW - Social justice KW - Wealth KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Social policy KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Democracy KW - Liberty KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Equality - Canada KW - Welfare economics KW - Distributive justice - Canada KW - Canada - Social policy KW - Politics and culture. KW - Citizenship. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101474994 AB - All advanced democracies have faced the pressures of globalization, technological change, and new family forms, which have generated higher levels of inequality in market incomes. But countries have responded differently, reflecting differences in their domestic politics. The politics of who gets what and why is at the core of this volume, the first to examine this question in an explicitly Canadian context. In Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics, leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists point to the failure of public policy to contain surging income inequality. Government programs are no longer offsetting the growth in inequality generated by the market, and Canadian society has become more unequal. The redistributive state is fading due to powerful forces that have reshaped the politics of social policy, including global economic pressures, ideological change, shifts in the influence of business and labour, changes in the party system, and the decline of equality-seeking civil society organizations. This volume demonstrates conclusively that action and inaction -- policy change and policy drift -- are at the heart of growing inequality, calling into question Canada's record as a kinder, gentler nation. ER -