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Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation

Study by Peter Enns, published in Perspectives on Politics in 2015, answering the Gilens and Page study.

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Dec 2015
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What it found

I demonstrate that even on those issues for which the preferences of the wealthy and those in the middle diverge, policy ends up about where we would expect if policymakers represented the middle class and ignored the affluent.1

Who disputes it

  • Martin Gilens 2015

    There simply is not enough coincidence of policy outcomes and middle-class preferences to justify the conclusion that middle-income Americans are likely to be satisfied with the policies their government adopts.2

    As Peter Enns quotes his reply; Enns then answered it in the same exchange.

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  1. 2015 Martin Gilens disputes a finding of Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation According to Martin Gilens
  2. Dec 2015 Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation
  3. Dec 2015 Peter Enns authored Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation
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  1. Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation, Perspectives on Politics (Cambridge University Press), Dec 2015. Scholarship & press
    I demonstrate that even on those issues for which the preferences of the wealthy and those in the middle diverge, policy ends up about where we would expect if policymakers represented the middle class and ignored the affluent.
    Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation Peter K. Enns
  2. Reconsidering the Middle: A Reply to Martin Gilens, Perspectives on Politics (Cambridge University Press), Dec 2015. Scholarship & press
    There simply is not enough coincidence of policy outcomes and middle-class preferences to justify the conclusion that middle-income Americans are likely to be satisfied with the policies their government adopts.
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