Inequality in policy responsiveness?

Who Gets Represented?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 285-310

  Wlezien, Christopher ^a   Soroka, Stuart N ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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