Chair: Dan Slater, James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science Director, Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan

Speakers: Noam Lupu, Professor/ Associate Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP),Vanderbilt University
Charlotte Cavaille, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Respondent: Vincent Mauro, Center for Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

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Inequality has long been theorized to be a scourge on the vitality of democratic societies. Beyond rising levels of economic inequalities recently experienced by many countries, there exist many deep-rooted political and social inequalities that may undermine democratic politics or aid political entrepreneurs leading undemocratic movements to capitalize upon. This roundtable introduces a recently edited volume, Unequal Democracies, that helps untangle the complex relationship between contemporary democracies and inequality along a variety of economic, political, and social dimensions.

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