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What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs
Get full access to this article View all access and purchase options for this article. References Ansolabehere Stephen, Rodden Jonathan, Snyder James M. Jr. 2006. “Purple America.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (2): 97–118. Arnold R. Douglas. 1990. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Baccini Leonardo, Weymouth Stephen. 2021. “Gone for Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting.” American Political Science Review 115 (2): 550–567.
Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution
Type Article Information Perspectives on Politics , First View , pp. 1 - 21 Creative Commons This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. Copyright © The Author(s), 2023.
Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution
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To Win Progressive Policies, Tell Voters Exactly How They Will Benefit
What explains the significantly higher level of support for Colorado’s policy than Massachusetts’s? Massachusetts voters were deciding on general transportation and education spending increases, which could come in many forms. This likely left them more susceptible to opposition arguments about how state politicians might spend the new money in unwise or wasteful ways.
Climate Action: What the Sunrise Movement Can Do Better
Members of the Sunrise Movement display a banner on the Green New Deal at a rally in Chicago, February 2019. Photo: Charles Edward Miller, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Sunrise group organises protests meant to “ignite moral conflict” between climate action heroes and fossil fuel villains, and move public opinion. Many have accused Sunrisers of engaging in pageantry that stands no chance of improving, and perhaps could damage, the prospects for meaningful climate action.
What the Sunrise Movement Can Do Better
“BIDEN YOU COWARD — FIGHT FOR US,” the sign blared. A few hundred members of the Sunrise Movement had gathered near the White House late last month to protest the Biden administration’s proposed compromise with Republicans on infrastructure legislation, jettisoning most of the climate provisions from an already inadequate bill. Speeches were made, songs sung; many Sunrisers sat down in the road before being dragged away by the police.
We Need a Green New Deal to Expand Worker Ownership of Our Economy
The primary reason why we face climate catastrophe today is because corporations have had far too much power over the economy and politics. We know that fossil fuel and utility companies — those who stand to lose the most from carbon-cutting policies — have fought to buy off politicians, lobby the hell out of Congress, dissuade the public of climate science, scare voters about electricity prices skyrocketing, and fund climate-denying think tanks.
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