American democracy in an era of rising inequality

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-18

  Jacobs, Lawrence R ^a   Skocpol, Theda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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