Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Group Opinion and the Study of Representation / Peter K. Enns and Christopher Wlezien
Part 1. Group Opinions
Part 1. Introduction
2. Assessing the Ethnic and Racial Diversity of American Public Opinion / Marisa Abrajano and Keith T. Poole
3. United We Divide? Education, Income, and Heterogeneity in Mass Partisan Polarization / Christopher Ellis and Joseph Daniel Ura
4. The Political Geography of Party Resurgence / David A. Hopkins and Laura Stoker
5. Get Government Out of It: Heterogeneity of Government and Its Connection to Economic Interests and Policy Preferences / Katherine Cramer Walsh
Part 2. Policy Representation
Part 2. Introduction
6. Segmented Representation: The Reagan White House and Disproportionate Responsiveness / James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs
7. Whose Statehouse Democracy? Policy Responsiveness to Poor Versus Rich Constituents in Poor Versus Rich States / Elizabeth Rigby and Gerald C. Wright
8. How Poorly Are the Poor Represented in the U.S. Senate? / Yosef Bhatti and Robert S. Erikson
9. Policy Consequences of Representational Inequality / Martin Gilens
10. Inequality in Policy Repsonsiveness / Christopher Wlezien and Stuart N. Soroka
11. Who Do Parties Represent? / Wesley Hussey and John Zaller
Part 3. On Inequality in Political Representation
12. The Issues in Representation / James A. Stimson
Epilogue: Final Thoughts on Who Gets Represented / Peter K. Enns and Christopher Wlezien
Index