Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

by Martin Gilens

Book Overview

Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poor

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691162425
• ISBN13: 9780691162423
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"