The Public’s Role in Winner-Take-All Politics

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , "The Case for Policy-Focused Political Analysis" ( paper, American Political Science Association, Toronto , September 3-6, 2009).

Mark A. Smith, The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism Poll, November 1999. This and the other polls cited and analyzed here were accessed from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut .

See, e.g., Larry M. Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008); and Jennifer L. Hochschild, What’s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981).

Virginia P. Reno and Joni Lavery , "Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security: Americans’ Views on Social Security" (Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance, August 2009), 13.

Andrea Louise Campbell , How Americans Think about Taxes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

Ibid.

Larry M. Bartels , "Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind," Perspectives on Politics 3 (2005): 15-31.

Wojciech Kopczuk , Emmanuel Saez , and Jae Song , "Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937 ," (NBER Working Paper no. 13345, 2007), www.nber.org/papers/w13345.

See Andrea Brandolini , "Political Economy and the Mechanics of Politics," Politics & Society 38(2) 212-226.

Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

At least until recent elections, post-2002, when the Democrats increased their small donor contributor base. See Marjorie Randon Hershey, Party Politics in America ( New York: Pearson, 2009).

Steven M. Teles and Martha Derthick , "Social Security from 1980 to the Present: From Third Rail to Presidential Commitment-and Back?" in Conservatism and American Political Development, ed. Brian J. Glenn and Steven M. Teles ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 261-90.