Berkeley, CA & New York: University Of California Press / Russell Sage Foundation, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "brilliantly demonstrates how political power is disproportionately concentrated among the most advantaged segments of society and how the monetary, trade, and tax policies of recent years have deepened this power imbalance. Developing his earlier views on race in contemporary society, William Julius Wilson gives a simple, straightforward, and crucially important diagnosis of the problem of rising social inequality in the United States and details a set of recommendations for dealing with it." A title in the Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy Series. Notes, bibliography, index. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-520222261.