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The unheavenly chorus : unequal political voice and the broken promise of American democracy / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady.
LIBRA JK1764 .S365 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlozman, Kay Lehman, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- United States.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Pressure groups--United States.
- Pressure groups.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 693 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: democracy and political voice
- The (ambivalent) tradition of equality in America
- The context: growing economic inequality and weakening unions
- Equal voice and the dilemmas of democracy
- Does unequal voice matter?
- The persistence of unequal voice
- Unequal at the starting line: the intergenerational persistence of political inequality
- Political participation over the life cycle
- Political activism and electoral democracy: perspectives on economic inequality and political polarization
- Political voice through organized interests
- Who sings in the heavenly chorus? the shape of the organized interest system
- The changing pressure community
- Beyond organizational categories
- Political voice through organized interest activity
- Breaking the pattern through political recruitment
- Weapon of the strong? participatory inequality and the internet
- What, if anything, is to be done?
- Conclusion: equal voice and the promise of American democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691154848
- 0691154848
- OCLC:
- 761850868
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