Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

A review of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel.

Both Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe have undergone significant democratization in recent years. Yet each region retains a distinctive approach, grounded in its own history, to common problems…

"The Latin American Experience” argues that democratic stability requires policies that limit the society’s degree of substantive economic and social inequality.