Why low trust in government may mean Americans don't want anything done about inequality.
Macdonald, D.
(1 December 2019)
Why low trust in government may mean Americans don't want anything done about inequality.
USApp-American Politics and Policy Blog.
The past 40 years have seen a huge increase in income inequality in America, with the top 1 percent of earners seeing large increases in their share of all incomes. David Macdonald writes that while most Americans appear to be opposed to high levels of inequality, low levels of trust in government may be dampening their desire for measures to redistribute incomes. [...]
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | copyright 2019 The Author |
| Departments | LSE > Research Centres > Phelan United States Centre |
| Date Deposited | 05 Feb 2020 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103292 |