Inequality and public policy

Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 156-213

  Hacker, Jacob S ^a   Mettler, Suzanne ^b   Pinderhughes, Dianne ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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