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Exhibit 700

When Do the Rich Win?

Exhibit 700 ยท Peer-reviewed article

When Do the Rich Win?

Political Science Quarterly article, 2017. Elkjaer and Iversen 2020 (p. 257) write that when the groups disagree 'the rich win only marginally more often than the middle class'. Elkjaer and Klitgaard 2024 (p. 320) report that on the small subset where middle- and high-income preferences oppose, the rich get their way 53 percent against 47 percent, and that disagreement of that kind occurs in about 1 of 10 cases. A 2016 Washington Monthly report on a pre-publication draft gives 1,594 of 1,779 policies (about 90 percent) with rich-middle agreement and 185 splits. Gilens and Page 2016 accept the 47/53 numbers.

Source
J. Alexander Branham, Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien, Political Science Quarterly 132(1), pp. 43-62
Date
2017
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12577
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding POL-2.4
Peer-reviewed In the 185 of 1,779 Gilens-Page cases where the median-income and affluent majorities took opposite sides, the median-income side got its preferred outcome 47 percent of the time and the affluent side 53 percent. Gilens and Page accept these figures.