{"id":548,"date":"2015-07-17T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/masteryusgovernment1x6xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=548"},"modified":"2015-07-27T17:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T17:43:56","slug":"video-martin-gilens-on-political-inequality","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/chapter\/video-martin-gilens-on-political-inequality\/","title":{"raw":"Video: Martin Gilens on Political Inequality","rendered":"Video: Martin Gilens on Political Inequality"},"content":{"raw":"In the video below, at the MIT Citizens Rising \"Anti-Corruption\" Symposium, Martin Gilens explores political inequality in the United States. Discussing the results of his recent study, Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, Gilens presents us with \"a deeply disturbing implication: our society is a democracy in name only.\" Analyzing approximately 2,000 survey questions regarding a range of federal government policies since the 1980's, he finds that policy makers respond exclusively to the desires of the rich\u2014with the preferences of ordinary citizens being largely irrelevant.\r\n\r\nNote: Feel free to watch the entire video, but the recommended talk by Martin Gilens begins\u00a0at the 10:30 mark.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/SzS068SL-rQ\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>In the video below, at the MIT Citizens Rising &#8220;Anti-Corruption&#8221; Symposium, Martin Gilens explores political inequality in the United States. Discussing the results of his recent study, Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, Gilens presents us with &#8220;a deeply disturbing implication: our society is a democracy in name only.&#8221; Analyzing approximately 2,000 survey questions regarding a range of federal government policies since the 1980&#8217;s, he finds that policy makers respond exclusively to the desires of the rich\u2014with the preferences of ordinary citizens being largely irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Feel free to watch the entire video, but the recommended talk by Martin Gilens begins\u00a0at the 10:30 mark.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Martin Gilens on Political Inequality \u2013 MIT \u2013 09.19.14\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SzS068SL-rQ?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-548\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Martin Gilens on Political Inequality. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Daniel Miller. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SzS068SL-rQ\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/SzS068SL-rQ<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube video<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":923,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Martin Gilens on Political Inequality\",\"author\":\"Daniel Miller\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SzS068SL-rQ\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube video\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-548","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":490,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/548\/revisions\/1026"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/490"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/548\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-usgovernment-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}