Tolerance for Inequality

Andrew J. Taylor is professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on American governmental institutions, and he is the author or coauthor of four books.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPreface and Acknowledgments1. Political Science and Economic Inequality2. Public Opinion and Economic Policy: System Responsiveness and Attentiveness3. Public Opinion and Economic Policy: Episodes and Issues4. Less Affluent Americans’ Views of the Economy: Substance5. Less Affluent Americans’ Views of the Economy: Clarity6. Distribution and Less Affluent Americans’ Views of Politics7. The Substantive Representation of Affluence: Apportionment and Effectiveness8. The Substantive Representation of Affluence: A Dyadic Analysis9. The Descriptive Representation of Affluence: Do Less Affluent Americans Care?10. The Descriptive Representation of Affluence: Are Less Affluent Legislators Liberal and Effective?11. Counterbalance? The Economic Policy Views of Educated and Professional Democrats12. Political Science, American Democracy, and the Future of Inequality: Concluding ThoughtsNotesReferencesIndex

“Drawing from decades of research on public opinion and public policy, Taylor challenges the conventional wisdom that American policymaking has a strong upper-class bias. Meticulously researched and carefully written, Taylor’s book reframes the debate on inequality in American politics. Just as importantly, it encourages political scientists to think deeply about how our own biases and preconceptions affect the questions that we ask and the answers that we find.”