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Barbara Sinclair

Barbara Sinclair is Marvin Hoffenberg Professor Emerita of American Politics at UCLA and author of Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making.

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Preferences Are Overrated Public preferences and public policy are weakly correlated and marked by high and rising inequality, with the affluent wielding greater influence than the less well off no matter who...
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