Democracy, Inequality, and Representation in Comparative Perspective

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book examines how democratic politics helps to shape levels of income inequality in society, as well as how inequality affects the quantity and quality of democratic representation. Although all of us have been working on questions related to the theme of the book for some time, this volume has its most immediate origins in a conference organized in May 2005 by Chris Anderson and Pablo Beramendi at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. The conference was generously supported by several organizations, and we are grateful for their support: the Maxwell European Union Center, the Center for European Studies, the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University, and the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. We also would like to thank the director of the Moynihan Institute, Professor Peg Hermann, for her help in bringing together the group of authors as well as a number of conference participants. We would like to thank the following individuals for participating in the conference and providing thoughtful and constructive feedback during the sessions: Michael Cain, Michael D. McDonald , Branco Milanovic, Juan Rafael Morillas, Mitchell Orenstein, and Christopher Way. Michael Wallerstein, in memoriam ...