Silent Voices: Social Welfare Policy Opinions and Political Equality in America

For many helpful discussions regarding this project and comments on earlier drafts of this paper, I would like to thank Michael Alvarez, Larry Bartels, Jake Bowers, Nancy Burns, Jamie Druckman, Stanley Feldman, Fred Greenstein, John Jackson, Donald Kinder, Ken Kollman, Tali Mendelberg, Jonathan Nagler, Mike Traugott, Joshua Tucker, Cara Wong, and seminar participants at New York University, Princeton University, and Yale University. I would also like to thank Paul Gerber for research assistance. I, of course, am responsible for any errors that remain. The data used in this article were made available by the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research. Neither the collector of the original data nor the consortium bears any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here.