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The Political Representation of Economic Interests

World Politics, 2020
ABSTRACTRising inequality has caused concerns that democratic governments are no longer responding to majority demands, an argument the authors label thesubversion of democracy model(sdm). Thesdmcomes in two forms: one uses public opinion data to show that policies are strongly biased toward the preferences of the rich; the other uses macrolevel data ...
Elkjær, Mads Andreas, Iversen, Torben
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The Spherical Representation of Vocational Interests

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1996
Abstract We report the development, examination, and replication of a spherical structure of vocational interests. A sample of 266 undergraduate students were asked to give their preferences to a sample of 229 occupational titles. The principal components analysis conducted on the item level responses supported the presence of the prestige component ...
Terence J.G. Tracey, James Rounds
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Race and the Representation of Blacks' Interests During Reconstruction

Political Research Quarterly, 2001
A majority of recent studies finds that black members of Congress are more supportive of blacks' interests than are white members of Congress, even white Democrats. These results are limited, however, exclusively to the contemporary period as scholars have not studied how black members of Congress behaved during Reconstruction, the first era of blacks'
Michael D. Cobb, Jeffery A. Jenkins
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Interest Representation: The Dominance of Institutions

American Political Science Review, 1984
Interest group theory traditionally assumed that policies advocated by group representatives in some sense grow out of the interests or values of the group's members. Mancur Olson and others compelled important revisions in this assumption, but still left the process of interest advocacy to membership groups.
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Contributions of the Spherical Representation of Vocational Interests

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1996
Abstract Comments of Borgen and Donnay (1996), Gonzalez (1996), Gottfredson (1996), Harmon (1996), Hansen (1996), and Prediger (1996) are addressed as they relate to the common themes of the contributions of the spherical model, the utility of a spherical representation of interests, the presence of a perfect sphere, and method issues.
Terence J.G. Tracey, James Rounds
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