Scholars have demonstrated that economic inequality in America is closely correlated to political polarization among America's political elites. The connection between the two is explained by the fact that the public's partisanship has become income-stratified because of polarized redistributive preferences. However, the correlation between income and partisanship weakened after the year 2000, and there is no empirical evidence of polarization in redistributive preferences. It is also unclear whether inequality and polarization have a causal relationship because of the complicated and endogenous nature of both trends. In this dissertation, I argue that unequal economic growth leads to political polarization in the American public. Instead o...
Since the early 1970s, American society has undergone two important parallel transformations, one po...
This dissertation examines how district-level wealth inequality affects individual representatives. ...
Growing party polarization directly results from increasing economic inequalities, racial tensions a...
Scholars have demonstrated that economic inequality in America is closely correlated to political po...
Economic inequality has been on the rise in the United States for decades, as has political polariza...
The form of political polarization where citizens develop strongly negative attitudes toward out-par...
More and more political attention has, in recent years, been directed towards the rise in income ine...
Objectives. We investigate whether growing income inequality has heightened differ-ences in economic...
Growing polarization in the American Congress is closely related to rising income inequality. Yet th...
Social and political polarization is a significant source of conflict and poor governance in many so...
This thesis proposes three studies to explore the impact of income inequality on established democra...
Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced an alarming rise in levels of income inequality a...
This dissertation focuses on the political responses to income inequality. Multiple critical puzzles...
Politics in the United States can now be characterized as an ideologically polarized two-party syste...
Inequality has emerged as a major theme in the comparative studies of advanced capitalist political ...
Since the early 1970s, American society has undergone two important parallel transformations, one po...
This dissertation examines how district-level wealth inequality affects individual representatives. ...
Growing party polarization directly results from increasing economic inequalities, racial tensions a...
Scholars have demonstrated that economic inequality in America is closely correlated to political po...
Economic inequality has been on the rise in the United States for decades, as has political polariza...
The form of political polarization where citizens develop strongly negative attitudes toward out-par...
More and more political attention has, in recent years, been directed towards the rise in income ine...
Objectives. We investigate whether growing income inequality has heightened differ-ences in economic...
Growing polarization in the American Congress is closely related to rising income inequality. Yet th...
Social and political polarization is a significant source of conflict and poor governance in many so...
This thesis proposes three studies to explore the impact of income inequality on established democra...
Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced an alarming rise in levels of income inequality a...
This dissertation focuses on the political responses to income inequality. Multiple critical puzzles...
Politics in the United States can now be characterized as an ideologically polarized two-party syste...
Inequality has emerged as a major theme in the comparative studies of advanced capitalist political ...
Since the early 1970s, American society has undergone two important parallel transformations, one po...
This dissertation examines how district-level wealth inequality affects individual representatives. ...
Growing party polarization directly results from increasing economic inequalities, racial tensions a...