Authors: Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu Why do so few working-class people go on to hold elected office? In the average democracy, working-class jobs make up about 70 percent of occupations, but only 2 percent of national legislators come from working-class jobs. In “Keeping Workers Off the Ballot,” Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu show that this disparity is not because working-class people are less appealing to voters, less interested in running, or less qualified. Carnes and Lupu argue that it i
