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04/26/13 http://slate.me/11Z0m7V - Congress Ignores The Poor, Yet Again (www.slate.com) By Matthew Yglesias - "Well, this chart from Larry Bartels' 2005 paper on "Economic Inequality and Political Representation" tells you what you need to know."
04/25/13 http://nyti.ms/180iVvF - The 1 Percent's Solution (www.nytimes.com) By Paul Krugman - "What, after all, do people want from economic policy? The answer, it turns out, is that it depends on which people you ask — a point documented in a recent research paper by the political scientists Benjamin Page, Larry Bartels and Jason Seawright."
04/10/13 http://bit.ly/150gwEh - Who Needs Math? (washingtonmonthly.com) By Larry Bartels
04/09/13 http://bit.ly/YJRQMV - Who Needs Math? (monkeycage.org) By Larry Bartels - "My own work has become rather less mathematical over the course of my career. When people ask why, I usually say that as I have come to learn more about politics, the "sophisticated" wrinkles have seemed to distract more than they added..."
03/28/13 http://huff.to/16kVkqz - Surprising Studies Find DC Does What Wealthiest Want, Majority Opposes (huffingtonpost.com) By Dave Johnson - "A new study, Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans, by Professors Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright and Larry M. Bartels, sought to gauge the political and policy priorities of the wealthy, and how these concerns contrast with the concerns of the rest of us."
03/27/13 http://bit.ly/16YlCAe - What Do Wealthy Super Citizens Want From Government? (policyshop.com) By David Callahan - Several political scientists, including Larry Bartels and Martin Gilens, have recently examined the question of what the affluent want compared to the rest of America, and what policymakers deliver. Their findings are alarming, as I discuss in a new Demos report, "Stacked Deck," written with my colleague Mijin Cha.
02/07/13 http://huff.to/VK6Dr8 - A New And Better Way to Rate Super Bowl Ads (Huffingtonpost.com) By John Geer - "...Vanderbilt/YouGov (VUYG) Ad Rating project offers a better way to get more systematic and more accurate data about the public's reactions to these ads..."
01/21/13 http://on.tnr.com/YA8gE1 - The Equality Inaugural (newrepublic.com) By Timothy Noah - "The Vanderbilt political scientist Larry Bartels looked at income growth for families at various income percentiles under Democratic and Republican presidencies. His calculations covered the years 1948 to 2005. The graphic artist Catherine Mulbrandon of VisualizingEconomics.com took Bartels' data and turned it into a chart that illustrates very dramatically why, if you care at all about income inequality, you should vote Democratic."