The Political Representation of Economic Interests: Subversion of Democracy or Middle-Class Supremacy?

• In Event: The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution

Brief Overview

This paper is a critical reassessment of a new and highly-cited literature on redistribution and economic policy-making that paints a gloomy picture of democracy.

Authors

• Mads Andreas Elkjaer, University of Oxford

• Torben Iversen, Harvard University