Are There Social Class Gaps in Nascent Political Ambition? Survey Evidence from the Americas.
Why do so few working-class citizens go on to hold elected office in democracies? This article tests an explanation motivated by the larger literature on descriptive representation, namely, differences in nascent ambition. Are workers less likely to be personally inclined to run? In this study, we u...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Politics Vol. 87; no. 4; pp. 1533 - 1546 |
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University of Chicago Press
Oct2025
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