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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400841912
035 _a(DE-B1597)453806
035 _a(OCoLC)979629533
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aJK1764
072 7 _aPOL007000
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082 0 4 _a323/.0420973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSchlozman, Kay Lehman
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Unheavenly Chorus :
_bUnequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy /
_cKay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady, Sidney Verba.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (728 p.) :
_b59 line illus. 58 tables.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Figures --
_tList of Tables --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice --
_tPart I. Th inking about Inequality and Political Voice --
_t2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America --
_t3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions --
_t4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy --
_t5. Does Unequal Political Voice Matter? --
_t6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice --
_t7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality --
_t8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle --
_t9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization --
_tPart III. Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity --
_t10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters --
_t11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System --
_t12. The Changing Pressure Community --
_t13. Beyond Organizational Categories --
_t14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity --
_tPart IV. Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus? --
_t15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment --
_t16. Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet --
_t17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? --
_t18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy --
_tAppendixes --
_tAppendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions --
_tAppendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity --
_tAppendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation --
_tAppendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects --
_tAppendix E: The Washington Representatives Database --
_tAppendix F: Additional Tables --
_tAppendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aPolitically 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 system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most comprehensive and systematic examination of political voice in America ever undertaken--and its findings are sobering. The Unheavenly Chorus is the first book to look at the political participation of individual citizens alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests--membership associations such as unions, professional associations, trade associations, and citizens groups, as well as organizations like corporations, hospitals, and universities. Drawing on numerous in-depth surveys of members of the public as well as the largest database of interest organizations ever created--representing more than thirty-five thousand organizations over a twenty-five-year period--this book conclusively demonstrates that American democracy is marred by deeply ingrained and persistent class-based political inequality. The well educated and affluent are active in many ways to make their voices heard, while the less advantaged are not. This book reveals how the political voices of organized interests are even less representative than those of individuals, how political advantage is handed down across generations, how recruitment to political activity perpetuates and exaggerates existing biases, how political voice on the Internet replicates these inequalities--and more. In a true democracy, the preferences and needs of all citizens deserve equal consideration. Yet equal consideration is only possible with equal citizen voice. The Unheavenly Chorus reveals how far we really are from the democratic ideal and how hard it would be to attain it.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEquality
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPolitical participation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPressure groups
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
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653 _aANES panel studies.
653 _aAmerica.
653 _aAmerican civic culture.
653 _aAmerican democracy.
653 _aInternet.
653 _aSupreme Court decisions.
653 _aWashington pressure community.
653 _aWashington representation.
653 _aadvantaged.
653 _aage groups.
653 _aage.
653 _abusiness interests.
653 _aclass bias.
653 _aclass differences.
653 _aclass inequalities.
653 _aclass inequality.
653 _acohort effects.
653 _acreative participation.
653 _ademocracy.
653 _ademocratic dilemma.
653 _ademocratic governance.
653 _adifferential voice.
653 _adisadvantaged.
653 _aeconomic inequality.
653 _aeconomic interests.
653 _aeducated parents.
653 _aeducational attainment.
653 _aegalitarians.
653 _aelections.
653 _aelectoral democracy.
653 _aempirical analysis.
653 _aequal consideration.
653 _aequal political voice.
653 _aequal voice.
653 _aequality.
653 _afamily background.
653 _afederal constitution.
653 _afree rider problem.
653 _ahome politics.
653 _ainequalities.
653 _alife-cycle effects.
653 _amaterial well-being.
653 _amedian voter model.
653 _anational politics.
653 _anonvoters.
653 _aorganizational activity.
653 _aorganized interest activity.
653 _aorganized interest influence.
653 _aorganized interest politics.
653 _aorganized interest representation.
653 _aorganized interest system.
653 _aorganized interests.
653 _aorganized representation.
653 _aparental education.
653 _aparticipatory advantage.
653 _aparticipatory inequalities.
653 _aparticipatory patterns.
653 _apolicy benefits.
653 _apolitical activism.
653 _apolitical activity.
653 _apolitical advantage.
653 _apolitical conflict.
653 _apolitical division.
653 _apolitical inactivity.
653 _apolitical inequality.
653 _apolitical involvement.
653 _apolitical organizations.
653 _apolitical outcomes.
653 _apolitical participation.
653 _apolitical polarization.
653 _apolitical processes.
653 _apolitical recruitment.
653 _apolitical voice.
653 _apressure community.
653 _apressure politics.
653 _apressure system.
653 _apublic officials.
653 _apublic opinion.
653 _apublic policy.
653 _arational prospecting.
653 _aresource constraint.
653 _aresource constraints.
653 _aresource deprived.
653 _aresource disadvantaged.
653 _asocial class.
653 _asocial processes.
653 _asocio-economic status.
653 _asocio-economic stratification.
653 _astate constitutions.
653 _astrategic considerations.
653 _asurvey data.
653 _asurveys.
653 _asystematic empirical data.
653 _atrade-offs.
653 _aunequal political voice.
653 _aunion membership.
653 _avoluntary associations.
653 _avoters.
653 _avoting power.
653 _avoting strength.
653 _avoting.
653 _awebsites.
700 1 _aBrady, Henry E.
_eautore
700 1 _aVerba, Sidney
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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