Affluence and Influence : : Economic Inequality and Political Power in America /

Affluence and Influence : : Economic Inequality and Political Power in America / / Martin Gilens.

Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy--but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Gilens, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 9 halftones. 34 line illus. 55 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Citizen Competence and Democratic Decision Making
  • Chapter 2. Data and Methods
  • Chapter 3. The Preference/Policy Link
  • Chapter 4. Policy Domains and Democratic Responsiveness
  • Chapter 5. Interest Groups and Democratic Responsiveness
  • Chapter 6. Parties, Elections, and Democratic Responsiveness
  • Chapter 7. Democratic Responsiveness across Time
  • Chapter 8. Money and American Politics
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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