TY - JOUR AB - What is the nature of substantive representation within American institutions of government, and to what extent do constituents’ preferences turn into adopted policy? To answer these questions, I analyze data on federal policies proposed between 1964 and 2006 and constituents’ support for them by running a series of linear probability models to estimate the chance of policy adoption as a function of constituent support. I find the president is more responsive to constituents than Congress, and high-income constituents’ preferences – but not those of median- and low-income constituents – are significantly correlated with policies adopted by both Congress and the president. AU - Nolan Siegel DA - 2022/8// DO - 10.14324/111.444.2755-0877.1408 IS - 1 VL - 1 PB - University College London (UCL) PY - 2022 TI - From Preference to Policy: Wealth, Institutions of Government, and the Search for Democracy T2 - UCL Journal of Economics UR - https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/UJE/article/id/1408/ ER -