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Who gets represented? / Peter Enns and Christopher Wlezien, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Majorities.
- Social classes--Political aspects.
- Social classes.
- Representative government and representation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An investigation of policy preferences in the U.S.and how group opinion affects political representation. While it is often assumed that policymakers favor the interests of some citizens at the expense of others, it is not always evident when and how groups' interests differ or what it means when they do.Who Gets Represented?.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-722-0
- OCLC:
- 808337198
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