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Martin Gilens

Martin Gilens is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and author of Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America.

Articles

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

Martin Gilens

Forums

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

Martin Gilens

Forum Responses

Listening to the People I am grateful to the commentators for their thoughtful responses. Since I can’t address all of their insights and critiques, I will concentrate on two broad questions they...
Martin Gilens
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis make a compelling case that the calculating, narrowly self-interested Homo economicus is, if not exactly a fiction, a misleadingly incomplete understanding of human behavior. In laboratory experiments, they show,...
Martin Gilens

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