The public's role in winner-take-all politics

Politics and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-232

  Campbell, Andrea Louise ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Political knowledge; Political salience; Public opinion; Tax policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952632048     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329210365046     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, "The Case for Policy-Focused Political Analysis" (paper, American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009).
2. Mark A. Smith, The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).
3. UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism Poll, November 1999. This and the other polls cited and analyzed here were accessed from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut.
4. See, e.g., Larry M. Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
5. Jennifer L. Hochschild, What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981).
6. Virginia P. Reno and Joni Lavery, "Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security: Americans' Views on Social Security" (Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance, August 2009), 13.
7. Andrea Louise Campbell, How Americans Think about Taxes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).
8. Larry M. Bartels, "Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind," Perspectives on Politics 3 (2005): 15-31.
9. Wojciech Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez, and Jae Song, "Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937," (NBER Working Paper no. 13345, 2007), www.nber.org/papers/w13345.
10. See Andrea Brandolini, "Political Economy and the Mechanics of Politics," Politics & Society 38(2) 212-226.
11. Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
12. At least until recent elections, post-2002, when the Democrats increased their small donor contributor base. See Marjorie Randon Hershey, Party Politics in America (New York: Pearson, 2009).
13. Steven M. Teles and Martha Derthick, "Social Security from 1980 to the Present: From Third Rail to Presidential Commitment-and Back?" in Conservatism and American Political Development, ed. Brian J. Glenn and Steven M. Teles (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 261-90.