Polity - Abstract of article: Race, Inequality, and Liberal Democracy[ast]

Polity (2007) 39, 259–275. doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300085

Race, Inequality, and Liberal Democracy^*

Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson
. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Carol A Horton
. Race and the Making of American Liberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Michael MacDonald
. Why Race Matters in South Africa. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Shamira M Gelbman¹

¹University of Virginia

^*I thank an anonymous reviewer for Polity, Michael Goodhart, and Abhishek Chatterjee for their suggestions on an earlier draft of this essay.

race, democratization, inequality, South Africa, American liberalism