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Affluence and Influence

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Affluence and Influence

By Martin Gilens

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About the book

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 inter...Show more

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9780691162423

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Affluence and Influence

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