Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Why working-class people account for around 1% of lawmakers in the US – and only 2% in the average democracy around the world

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par Noam Lupu, Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Nicholas Carnes, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University

Both major U.S. political parties regularly tout their commitment to working-class Americans and claim to be the party of the working class. However, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nominate many candidates who spent substantial time in working-class jobs.

This near-absence…

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