Nathan J. Kelly, an assistant professor of political science, has just published The Politics of Income Inequality in the United States (2009, Cambridge University Press). The book represents a significant contribution to scholarship on the political and policy roots of the income gap that is only growing wider in this country. At a time when inequality is expanding and concerns about its effects are increasing, this work explains how politics influences inequality directly through pursuing or opposing redistributive policies and indirectly through what Kelly refers to as “market conditioning.” The book has already received strong reviews from leading scholars of inequality and will no doubt become a must-read for anyone engaging in research on inequality.

 

Recent Publications

Kelly, Nathan J. 2009. The Politics of Income Inequality in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Grant, J. Tobin, and Nathan J. Kelly. 2008. “Legislative Productivity of the U.S. Congress, 1789-2004.” Political Analysis 16(3):303-323.

Kelly, Nathan J., and Jana Morgan. 2008. “Religious Traditionalism and Latino Politics in the United States.” American Politics Research 36(2):236-263.

Keele, Luke, and Nathan J. Kelly. 2006. “Dynamic Models for Dynamic Theories: The Ins and Outs of Lagged Dependent Variable Models.” Political Analysis 14(2):186-205.

Kelly, Nathan J. 2005. “Political Choice, Public Policy, and Distributional Outcomes.” American Journal of Political Science 49(4):865-880.

Kelly, Nathan J., and Jana Morgan Kelly. 2005. “Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States.” Political Research Quarterly 58(1):87-95.

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