The American Political Science Association (APSA) has roughly 14,000 members. In fall
2002, APSA appointed a “Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy” (TFIAD). The
group's 15 members represented various prestigious American universities, including, for
example, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
TFIAD was tasked with assessing the relationship between economic inequality in America and
changes in political participation rates in our representative democracy.