With Friends Like Mine: Political Attitudes and Inequality in the Social Network

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Brief Overview

How does interpersonal inequality shape political attitudes? In this paper, I argue that social network inequality shapes a respondent's perceptions of inequality as a serious issue in dire need of a political response.

Authors

• Jennifer Fitzgerald, University of Colorado Boulder

• Jeffrey Nonnemacher, University of Colorado Boulder