Must-Read: John Voorheis, Nolan McCarty, and Boris Shor: Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization

Must-Read: John Voorheis, Nolan McCarty, and Boris Shor: Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization: “Income inequality has a large, positive and statistically significant effect on political polarization…

…Economic inequality appears to cause state Democratic parties to become more liberal. Inequality, however, moves state legislatures to the right overall. Such findings suggest that the effect of income inequality impacts polarization by replacing moderate Democratic legislators with Republicans…