Nicholas Carnes is a professor of political science at Duke, where he studies the reasons there are so few politicians with working class backgrounds, what consequences that has for the country, and what we might be able to do about it. We talk about his book The Cash Ceiling and how its conclusions fit with my own work, which finds that public financing for campaigns is a major predictor of national life satisfaction. Part 1 of 2.

Professor Carnes' excellent  book can be purchased here:
https://www.amazon.com/Cash-Ceiling-Office-Princeton-Political/dp/0691182000