Political inequality isn’t responsible for economic inequality

Economic inequality is high and rising, without much political response. Most stay that’s because our political institutions overrepresent the views of the rich. But Andrew Taylor finds that poor Americans don’t prioritize solving inequality or redistributive policy. They want their representatives to focus more on distributive politics and constituency service and that’s what they do. It’s a corrective to a lot of common social science assumptions.

https://www.niskanencenter.org/political-inequality-isnt-responsible-for-economic-inequality/

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