The Unheavenly Chorus : : Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy /

The Unheavenly Chorus : : Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy / / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady, Sidney Verba.

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Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Schlozman, Kay Lehman,
Brady, Henry E.,
Verba, Sidney,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (728 p.) :; 59 line illus. 58 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice
  • Part I. Th inking about Inequality and Political Voice
  • 2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America
  • 3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions
  • 4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy
  • 5. Does Unequal Political Voice Matter?
  • 6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice
  • 7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality
  • 8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle
  • 9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization
  • Part III. Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity
  • 10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters
  • 11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System
  • 12. The Changing Pressure Community
  • 13. Beyond Organizational Categories
  • 14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity
  • Part IV. Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus?
  • 15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment
  • 16. Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet
  • 17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done?
  • 18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions
  • Appendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity
  • Appendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation
  • Appendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
  • Appendix E: The Washington Representatives Database
  • Appendix F: Additional Tables
  • Appendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another?
  • Index

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