Unequal and Unrepresented : : Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age / / Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady.
How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resourcesThe Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresent...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 36 b/w illus., 19 tables, 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I
- What Do We Mean by Political Voice? Does Equal Voice Matter?
- The Roots of Citizen Participation: The Civic Voluntarism Model
- PART II
- Who Exercises Political Voice?
- The Noisy and the Silent: Divergent Preferences and Needs
- Do Digital Technologies Make a Difference?
- Social Movements and Ordinary Recruitment
- PART III
- Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System
- Representing Interests through Organizational Activity
- PART IV
- Growing Economic Inequality and Its (Partially) Political Roots
- Has It Always Been This Way?
- Can We Do Anything about It?
- Unequal Voice in an Unequal Age
- Notes
- Index