Poor Representation - Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States

The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.

List of contents

1. What about the poor?; 2. The political visibility of the poor; 3. Congressional inaction for the poor; 4. Congressional unresponsiveness to the poor; 5. Legislators' unresponsiveness to the poor; 6. Surrogate champions for the poor; 7. Positioned for legislative success; 8. Achieving better representation.

About the author

Kristina C. Miler is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Constituency Representation in Congress: The View from Capitol Hill (Cambridge, 2010), which won the Alan Rosenthal Award from the American Political Science Association. Her research focuses on political representation, especially in the US Congress.

Summary

This book is the first to systematically examine whether and how the poor are represented by Congress. Drawing on three decades of data, Miler shows that, while poverty is politically salient and the poor are politically visible to legislators, the poor are grossly underrepresented relative to other subgroups.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina C. Miler, Kristina C. (University of Maryland Miler, Miler Kristina C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108473507
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47350-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Poverty & unemployment, Political structure & processes, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes, Central government, Poverty and precarity