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Dividing the Poor: Congressional Representation in Rhetoric and Policy during the New Deal

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Existing scholarship documents the low levels of political power held by the American poor, and concomitant economic elite domination of Congress. Since the poor seldom elect lawmakers that share their descriptive traits, they necessarily rely on non-poor lawmakers virtually representing their interests. A key part of this virtual representation is...

Keyword:

Poverty, Public Policy, Representation, Policymaking, Congress, and American Political Development

Subject:

American history, Public policy, and Political science

Creator:

Diament, Sean Matthew

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

09/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_929189 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16262
Administrative Responsiveness to Public Opinion

Description:

This dissertation project is one of the first to explicitly study the theoretical and empirical relationship between public opinion and the policies of unelected administrative agencies in the United States. This research addresses two important questions: (1) given the absence of a direct electoral connection between bureaucrats and the public,...

Keyword:

regulation, bureaucracy, public opinion, and Congress

Subject:

Political Science

Creator:

Julia Rabinovich

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/01/2018

Date Modified:

10/01/2018

Date Created:

2008-12-03

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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