ABSTRACT
In Voice and Equality, Sid, Kay, and Henry note that participatory distortion is “more pronounced” for making financial contributions than for other kinds of political activity (p. 517). Truer words were never spake. On the other hand, this judgment was based on data collected about 1990. In the interim, there has been a lot of action in this department, none of which could be taken as upsetting this generalization. But it does suggest that however pronounced the distortion may have been in 1990, several secular trends in the interim may have increased the distortion in striking degree.
