Envy in Politics

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By Gwyneth McClendon *12

Published April 23, 2018

Envy in Politics (Princeton University Press) argues that envy and spite play a large role in politics — especially when in-group status is the focus of campaign rhetoric. The book focuses on politics in the United States and South Africa, two very different countries that both prove Gwyneth McClendon *12’s theories.

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