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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.

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

Martin Gilens

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

Martin Gilens

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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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