Income, Ideology, and Representation

Do legislators represent the rich better than they represent the poor? Recent work provides mixed support for this proposition. I test the hypothesis of differential representation using a data set on the political preferences of 318,537 individuals. Evidence of differential representation in the Ho...

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Main Author: Chris Tausanovitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-11-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.7.03