Political, Social, and Welfare Consequences of Economic Inequality (Co-sponsored by Political Sociology Section)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

Rising income and wealth inequality across the globe is remaking politics and everyday life. This joint session foregrounds social outcomes, not inequality levels, by examining how economic inequality alters a wide array of political and social dimensions, such as democratic participation and representation, policy responsiveness, social cohesion and conflict, and the design, financing, and delivery of welfare and public goods. We also seek papers that identify mechanisms (such as spatial and institutional segregation, fiscal fragmentation, organizational power, information asymmetries, and others) linking inequality to political, social, and welfare outcomes. Methodological pluralism is encouraged, including but not limited to administrative and geospatial data, natural and field experiments, comparative-historical work, surveys, and ethnography. Bridging the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility and Political Sociology sections, the session centers consequences that matter for citizens and institutions, clarifying when and how inequality becomes consequential for political, social, and welfare outcomes.

Sub Unit

• Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section / Political, Social, and Welfare Consequences of Economic Inequality (Co-sponsored by Political Sociology Section)

Cosponsor

• Political Sociology Section

Presider

• Manuel Schechtl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Individual Presentations

• Assessing Inequalities in Property Taxation by Homeowner Age and Race - Joe LaBriola, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Robert Allen Manduca, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Pablo A. Mitnik, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Contact, Competition, and Polarization? White working class men’s to exposure to others at work - Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jorge Quesada Velazco, Department of Organizatins, Copenhagen Business School

• County-level Structural and Relational Determinants of Deaths of Despair - Elizabeth A. Breen, University of California-Berkeley

• Sing Along with the Common People: Experimental Study of Contact Across Socioeconomic Groups and Prosocial Behavior - Bernardo Mackenna, Stanford University

• Wealth Inequality and Polarized Fertility Responses in the United States, 1970–2020 - Siyao Lu, Yale University; Rourke O'Brien, Yale University

Session Organizer

• Manuel Schechtl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill