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POLT 282 - Politics of Inequality in the United States


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS

This course examines the political and historical sources of inequality in the contemporary United States. We start by unpacking popular accounts that link this inequality to the decline of the twentieth century’s New Deal political order. We then explore alternative accounts that show how this order itself also constituted today’s inequality, either by fostering different patterns of social privilege and marginality or by addressing these patterns in somewhat contradictory and unsustainable ways. We close by considering how the public should politically respond to inequality in the contemporary U.S., given what we know about its political and historical roots.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: M. Forrest


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