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

Description:: 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
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_929189 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16262