Working Class Inclusion

Tiffany D. Barnes is a Professor of Political Science at University of Kentucky. Her first book, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration (2016), won the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association in 2017. Yann P. Kerevel is Associate Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He has published numerous articles in Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics & Society, among others. Gregory W. Saxton is a Senior Lecturer at Texas Tech University. His research appears in Governance, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Policy, Latin American Politics and Society, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, among others.

1. Introduction; 2. A Theory of Working-Class Inclusion; 3. Do Voters Want to Be Represented by Workers?; 4. Will Any Worker Do? The Role of Policy in Linking Workers' Presence to Evaluations of Representatives; 5. Will Any Worker Do? Linking Parties to Workers in Argentina and Mexico; 6. How Do Voters Know Workers Are in Office? Political Incentives, Journalistic Dissemination, and People's Ability to Intuit Class; 7. How Do Voters Know Workers Are in Office? Interest in Politics, News Consumption, and Evaluations of Institutions; 8. Conclusion.