Whose statehouse democracy? Policy responsiveness to poor versus rich constituents in poor versus rich states

Who Gets Represented?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-222

  Rigby, Elizabeth ^a   Wright, Gerald C ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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