Schlozman / Verba / Brady The Unheavenly Chorus

Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4191-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 728 Seiten

Kay Lehman Schlozman is the J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Sidney Verba is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University. Henry E. Brady is Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlozman, Kay Lehman

Verba, Sidney

Brady, Henry E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxv

Chapter 1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice 1

PART I: Thinking about Inequality and Political Voice

Chapter 2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America 31

Chapter 3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions 69

Chapter 4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy 96

PART II: Inequality of Political Voice and Individual Participation

Chapter 5. Does Unequal Voice Matter? 117

Chapter 6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice 147

Chapter 7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality with Nancy Burns 177

Chapter 8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle with Jennifer Erkulwater 199

Chapter 9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization 232

PART III: Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity

Chapter 10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters 265

Chapter 11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? Th e Shape of the Organized Interest System with Traci Burch and Philip Edward Jones 312

Chapter 12. The Changing Pressure Community 347

Chapter 13. Beyond Organizational Categories 370

Chapter 14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity with Philip Edward Jones and Traci Burch 393

PART IV: Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus?

Chapter 15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment 447

Chapter 16. Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet 483

Chapter 17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? with Shauna Shames 534

Chapter 18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy 574

Appendixes

Appendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions 605

Appendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity 608

Appendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation 616

Appendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects 619

Appendix E: The Washington Representatives Database 621

Appendix F: Additional Tables 645

Appendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? 649

Index 655

Über Autor(innen)

Kay Lehman Schlozman is the J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Sidney Verba is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University. Henry E. Brady is Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.