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Brady 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton ;$aOxford $cPrinceton University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (726 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-15986-6 311 $a0-691-15484-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$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 330 $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. 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