The unheavenly chorus [electronic resource] : unequal political voice and the broken promise of American democracy / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady.
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
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The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy |
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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.