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Author Gilens, Martin.

Title Affluence and influence : economic inequality and political power in America / Martin Gilens. [Boundless electronic resource]

Edition Student.
Publication Info. Princeton Univ Press, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource
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Contents Introduction -- Citizen competence and democratic decision-making -- Data and methods -- The preference/policy link -- Policy domains and democratic responsiveness -- Interest groups and democratic responsiveness -- Parties, elections, and democratic responsiveness -- Democratic responsiveness across time -- Money and American politics.
Summary 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 economically advantaged. Affluence and Influence definitively explores how political inequality in the United States has evolved over the last several decades and how this growing disparity has been shaped by interest groups, parties, and elections. With sharp analysis and an impressive range of.
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Subject Political planning -- United States.
Decision making -- United States.
Equality -- United States.
Representative government and representation -- United States.
Pressure groups -- United States.
Decision making.
Equality.
Political planning.
Pressure groups.
Representative government and representation.
Repräsentation.
Soziale Ungleichheit.
Einkommensunterschied.
Einflussnahme.
United States.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN 9781400844821 : $65.50
1400844827 : $65.50
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