Foreword / Lori Lightfoot -- Preface : one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette ; structural violence and the death gap ; Location, location, location ; Perception is reality ; the three Bs : beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain : life and death...

How does economic inequality affect public spending on healthcare in democracies? Does this depend upon the demographic composition of the electorate? We build a multidimensional model of political decision-making with endogenous political parties to analyse such questions. Voters in our model...

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