1. Introduction: The New Politics of Insecurity Frances Rosenbluth and Margaret Weir: Part I. People: 2. Race, Remembrance and Precarity: Nostalgia and Vote Choice in the 2016 US Election Andra Gillespi; 3. The End of Human Capital Solidarity? Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich; 4. Public Opinion and Reactions to Increasing Income Inequality Kris-Stella Trump; 5. Engendering Democracy in an Age of Anxiety Alice Kessler-Harris; Part II. Place: 6. Keeping your Enemies Close: Electoral Rules and Partisan Polarization Jonathan Rodden; 7. America's Unequal Metropolitan Geography: Segregation and the Spatial Concentration of Affluence and Poverty Douglas S. Massey and Jacob S. Rugh; 8. Redistribution and the Politics of Spatial Inequality in America Margaret Weir and Desmond King; Part III. Politics: 9. Electoral Realignments in the Atlantic World Carles Boix; Political Parties in the New Politics of Insecurity Christian Salas, Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro; 11. The Peculiar Politics of American Insecurity Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson; 12. The Anxiety of Precarity: the United States in Comparative Perspective Kathleen Thelen and Andreas Wiedemann; 13. Increasing Instability and Uncertainty Among Low-Wage Workers: Implications for Inequality and Potential Policy Solutions Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines and Yulya Truskinovsky.