abstract: 'ObjectiveHow does economic inequality shape participation in political

  campaigns? Previous research has found that higher inequality makes

  people of all incomes less likely to participate in politics, consistent

  with relative power theory, which holds that greater inequality enables

  wealthier citizens to more fully reshape the political landscape to

  their own advantage. Campaign activities, however, demand more time and

  money than previously examined forms of participation and so might

  better conform to the predictions of resource theory, which focuses

  narrowly on the ramifications of inequality for individuals'' resources.

  MethodsWe combine individual-level data on donations, meeting

  attendance, and volunteer work for political campaigns with measures of

  state-level income inequality to construct a series of multilevel

  models.

  ResultsThe analyses reveal that, where inequality is higher, campaign

  participation is lower among individuals of all incomes.

  ConclusionsPatterns of participation in even resource-intensive campaign

  activities provide support for the relative power theory.'
affiliation: 'Solt, F (Corresponding Author), Univ Iowa, Dept Polit Sci, 341 Schaeffer
  Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.

  Ritter, Michael; Solt, Frederick, Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA.'
author: Ritter, Michael and Solt, Frederick
author-email: frederick-solt@uiowa.edu
author_list:
- family: Ritter
  given: Michael
- family: Solt
  given: Frederick
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12605
eissn: 1540-6237
files: []
issn: 0038-4941
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
keywords-plus: INCOME INEQUALITY; TURNOUT
language: English
month: MAY
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '32'
orcid-numbers: 'Solt, Frederick/0000-0002-3154-6132

  Ritter, Michael/0000-0002-5911-6441'
pages: 678-688
papis_id: 7d9d361d2b1ad8d02f7b4aa6cbe824f1
ref: Ritter2019economicinequality
times-cited: '12'
title: Economic Inequality and Campaign Participation
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000467860700011
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volume: '100'
web-of-science-categories: Political Science; Sociology
year: '2019'