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Are the Nation's Leading Political Science Programs Practicing the Egalitarian Values Espoused in American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality, And if Not, How Can They?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2008

Kenneth Oldfield
Kenneth Oldfield
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University of Illinois at Springfield
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The American Political Science Association (APSA) has roughly 14,000 members. In fall 2002, APSA appointed a “Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy” (TFIAD). The group's 15 members represented various prestigious American universities, including, for example, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. TFIAD was tasked with assessing the relationship between economic inequality in America and changes in political participation rates in our representative democracy.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 567 - 573
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2008

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