"The Politics of the Top 1 Percent" from the NYT

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There's no doubt that the Occupy Wall Street movement has focused news analysis on profiling the 1%ers as compared to the rest of us. A NYT's blog compares two studies on the The Politics of the Top 1 Percent.

Excerpt:

To be sure, this is very much a project in progress.  But even these initial results, however unsurprising, are important.  Other scholars have found that, when the attitudes of the wealthy and less wealthy diverge, policy is much more in line with the attitudes of the wealthy.  The activism evident in the Chicago sample may explain why: they do much more to articulate their views to politicians.  (Of course, politicians themselves are often in the 1 percent.)  These inequalities in political voice may then give rise to policies that perpetuate unequal outcomes.

Read the full NYT's blog here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/the-politics-of-the-1-percent/