Susan Stokes, Faculty Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, recently published an opinion piece in Project Syndicate, “Inequality Spurs Democratic Backsliding.” The piece draws on research from the center that shows that countries with higher income inequality tend to have a higher risk of democratic erosion in a given year. This allows us to reframe the conversation about preserving U.S. democracy to include addressing income inequality as a key project toward that end.
Inequality Spurs Democratic Backsliding
