Includes bibliographic references and index.

Ten propositions about equality and democracy / Edward Broadbent -- Understanding the universal welfare state: an institutional approach / Bo Rothstein -- The party's over: what now? / John Richards -- Why not socialism? / G.A. Cohen -- Welfare states and democratic citizenship / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- Equality, community, and sustainability / Ian Angus -- Rethinking equality and equity: Canadian children and the social union / Jane Jenson -- How growing income inequality affects us all / Armine Yalnizyan -- American style welfare reform: inequality in the Clinton era / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Equality and welfare reform in Blair's Britain / Ruth Lister -- News media and civic equality: watch dogs, mad dogs, or lap dogs? / Robert A. Hackett -- Growing inequality: what the world thinks / Daniel Savas -- The economic consequences of financial inequality / Jim Stanford.