Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

By Martin Gilens. 2012

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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A Broken Public? Americans’ Responses to the Great Recession (2013, background): “In this context, partisanship or ideological “extremism” (Bafumi and Herron 2010), alongside income level (Gilens 2012), are candidates for future scholarship to investigate.”
Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020 (2021, background): “…representation and the distortion of politicians’ and legislators’ beliefs toward their most privileged constituencies: see Adams and Ezrow (2009); Gilens (2012); Bonica et al. (2013); Gilens and Page (2014); Kuhner (2014); Bartels (2017); Bertrand et al. (2020); Cagé (2020); Pereira (2021).”
Intellectual Property and Consolidation in the Seed Industry (2015, background): “Governments have vested interests in promoting the goals of large firms and most political systems are highly skewed to protect their interests, at the expense of other members of society (Bartels, 2010; Schlozman et al., 2012; Gilens, 2014).”
Public opinion and interest group influence: how citizen groups derailed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (2014, background): “In fact, a large number of studies show that public opinion has an impact on policy choices (Gilens 2012; Soroka and Wlezien 2010; see also the review of this literature in Burstein [2003]).”
Wealth Inequality and Democracy (2017, background): “Gilens (2012) then provided more extensive evidence that pointed in exactly the same direction.”
From Internet to social safety net: The policy consequences of online participation in China (2019, background): “…vote, make campaign contributions, and contact governments via various means (Kasara 2007; Schlozman, Verba and Brady 2012; Verba and Nie 1972), and their activism often translates into greater de facto influence over the political and policy-making process (Gilens 2012; Griffin and Newman 2005).”