What Did Political Scientist Larry Bartels Demonstrate in His Book

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Multiple Choice

What did political scientist Larry Bartels demonstrate in his book Unequal Democracy?

• A) Elected officials are substantially more responsive to the concerns of their more affluent constituents than to those of their poorer constituents.
• B) Elected officials are substantially more responsive to the efforts of lobbyists than to the concerns of their constituents.
• C) Elected officials do not tend to respond to the efforts of social movements or protests when casting votes or forming policy.
• D) Elected officials tend to ignore the interests of their constituents when they make policy or cast votes, until just before they are up for reelection.
• E) Incumbents hold so much power in the United States and are so difficult to unseat that they have disenfranchised much of the voting population of the U.S.
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