Who gets represented? /
"The impressive array of social scientific studies in Who Gets Represented? should set the agenda for the next generation of research on public opinion and political inequality in the United States. This research ought to further untangle the mechanisms by which the rich and other identifiable...
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
2011
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Group Opinion and the Study of Representation / Peter K. Enns and Christopher Wlezien ; Part 1. Group Opinions; Part 1. Introduction; 2. Assessing the Ethnic and Racial Diversity of American Public Opinion / Marisa Abrajano and Keith T. Poole ; 3. United We Divide? Education, Income, and Heterogeneity in Mass Partisan Polarization / Christopher Ellis and Joseph Daniel Ura ; 4. The Political Geography of Party Resurgence / David A. Hopkins and Laura Stoker.
- 5. Get Government Out of It: Heterogeneity of Government and Its Connection to Economic Interests and Policy Preferences / Katherine Cramer Walsh Part 2. Policy Representation; Part 2. Introduction; 6. Segmented Representation: The Reagan White House and Disproportionate Responsiveness / James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs ; 7. Whose Statehouse Democracy? Policy Responsiveness to Poor Versus Rich Constituents in Poor Versus Rich States / Elizabeth Rigby and Gerald C. Wright ; 8. How Poorly Are the Poor Represented in the U.S. Senate? / Yosef Bhatti and Robert S. Erikson.
- 9. Policy Consequences of Representational Inequality / Martin Gilens 10. Inequality in Policy Repsonsiveness / Christopher Wlezien and Stuart N. Soroka ; 11. Who Do Parties Represent? / Wesley Hussey and John Zaller ; Part 3. On Inequality in Political Representation; 12. The Issues in Representation / James A. Stimson ; Epilogue: Final Thoughts on Who Gets Represented / Peter K. Enns and Christopher Wlezien ; Index.
