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Affluence and Influence : Economic Inequality and Political Power in America /

Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy--but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economica...

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Autor principal: Gilens, Martin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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