Why politics inequality is to be blamed for economic and public injustice

Political equality is the most elementary tenet of democracy. However in the us and other democratic nations, people that have political power possess special access to markets and public providers. A Republic of Equals traces the substantial income inequality seen in america and other wealthy democracies to politicized markets and avoidable spaces in opportunity-and clarifies why they will be the real cause of what ails democracy today.

about A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for any Just Society

With this provocative book, Jonathan Rothwell draws on the latest empirical evidence from across the social sciences to show how wealthy democracies have allowed racial politics as well as the interests of those at the top to subordinate justice. He talks about the rise of nationalism in Europe and the United States, revealing how this tendency overlaps with racial prejudice and relates to mounting stress with a political status quo that thrives on income inequality and inefficient markets. But economic variations are in no way inevitable. Variations in group status by competition and ethnicity are powerful and have reversed themselves across continents and within countries. A Republic of Equals offers a vivid new perspective on how to foster greater politics and public equality, while shifting societies closer to what a true republic should be.