Popular posts this week
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- Book Review: Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Steve Koonin
- Information about celebrities’ political activities can influence how people think about political parties
- How drones are gamifying war in America’s casino capital
Professional campaigners are socially removed from low-income communities and taught to ignore them at election time, perpetuating political inequalities
Professional campaigners are socially removed from low-income communities and taught to ignore them at election time, perpetuating political inequalities
Voter turnout has fallen as income inequality has risen, in the US and other advanced democracies. Daniel Laurison considers this phenomenon an effect of how political campaigns are organised, and how campaign staff are recruited. Based on evidence from elections in the US, he explains why campaigns are reluctant to focus efforts on voters from disadvantaged communities.
As Stephanie Mudge wrote in […]