{"id":418,"date":"2018-09-19T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/?p=418"},"modified":"2018-09-19T12:40:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T16:40:26","slug":"david-madland-on-income-inequality-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/09\/19\/david-madland-on-income-inequality-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"David Madland on Income Inequality and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/magazine\/20\/growth-and-the-middle-class\/\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Madland, senior fellow at the Center for American progress advocates for a strong middle class in his piece \u201cSymposium First Principles: Arguing the Economy-Growth and the middle Class\u201d.  Madland speaks directly to the question of whether income inequality poses a threat to democracy in the section titled &#8220;Good Governance&#8221;.  Madland makes the claim that income inequality and the consequent shrinking of the middle class increase corruption and reduce efficacy and democracy in Government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A strong middle class, as thinkers from Aristotle to James Madison to modern political scientists have noted, fosters better governance by helping ensure government is well-run, increasing citizen participation, minimizing factional fighting, and promoting policies for the benefit of all of society rather than special interests. In contrast, economic inequality and a weak middle class make the political system imbalanced and depress the political participation of the non-wealthy, reducing voting, discussion, and interest in public policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c..economic inequality has a harmful effect on bureaucratic quality, government stability, and democratic accountability. Moreover, actual corruption in government becomes much more common without a strong middle class. In short, a weak middle class hollows out governing practices and institutions, so that the bureaucracy no longer delivers for its citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want to read more about Madland&#8217;s ideas? Here are the articles he references,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25193796?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents\">Solt<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1162\/rest.89.3.454\">Chong&amp;Gradstein<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the article Here. David Madland, senior fellow at the Center for American progress advocates for a strong middle class in his piece \u201cSymposium First Principles: Arguing the Economy-Growth and the middle Class\u201d. Madland speaks directly to the question of whether income inequality poses a threat to democracy in the section titled &#8220;Good Governance&#8221;. Madland &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/09\/19\/david-madland-on-income-inequality-and-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Madland on Income Inequality and Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}