Vivekinan L. Ashok, a Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, is working with , associate professor of government, and other Cornell researchers, including The John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the government department, to investigate how Americans form preferences for economic policy in the United States in light of rising inequality. His work is featured in
鈥淲hile economic inequality in the U.S. has risen by almost every measure in the last 40 years, the public鈥檚 preferences for redistribution has stayed flat for the same period,鈥 Ashok says in the story. 鈥淭his is counter intuitive. You鈥檇 expect these two things to move together.鈥
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