David Alexander

David Alexander is the federal managing director at Barton Deakin. He previously served as a senior adviser in the government of Australian prime minister John Howard. David is also a keen writer on economic and policy matters, having contributed to major Australian newspapers, Quadrant magazine, Policy magazine, the Spectator, and Conservative Home (in the United Kingdom).

Inequality is Fracturing American Democracy and Killing Prosperity

Social cohesion and, ultimately, democratic institutions are threatened by the flawed assumption that inequality is irrelevant.

By David Alexander American democracy is under strain. Public disenchantment with democracy as a system of government has grown consistently in recent decades, with Gallup surveys showing a large decline of confidence in democratic institutions. The […]

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