Within-District Contributors

Feb 26, 2024 | promarket.org | Ilyana Kuziemko |Nicolas Longuet-Marx |Suresh Naidu |Within-District Contributors

In a new paper, Ilyana Kuziemko, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, and Suresh Naidu point to a shift in the Democratic Party’s economic policy, from predistribution to redistribution, as one of the reasons why it has lost less-educated voters. A number of authors and commentators have pointed out that center-left parties throughout the Western democracies have “upskilled” since the 1970s, or replaced their traditional, blue-collar base with an increasingly educated one.