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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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Autore: Schlozman Kay Lehman <1946-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The unheavenly chorus [[electronic resource] ] : unequal political voice and the broken promise of American democracy / / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton ; ; Oxford, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (726 p.)
Disciplina: 323/.0420973
Soggetto topico: Political participation - United States
Equality - United States
Pressure groups - United States
Democracy - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: ANES panel studies
America
American civic culture
American democracy
Internet
Supreme Court decisions
Washington pressure community
Washington representation
advantaged
age groups
age
business interests
class bias
class differences
class inequalities
class inequality
cohort effects
creative participation
democracy
democratic dilemma
democratic governance
differential voice
disadvantaged
economic inequality
economic interests
educated parents
educational attainment
egalitarians
elections
electoral democracy
empirical analysis
equal consideration
equal political voice
equal voice
equality
family background
federal constitution
free rider problem
home politics
inequalities
life-cycle effects
material well-being
median voter model
national politics
nonvoters
organizational activity
organized interest activity
organized interest influence
organized interest politics
organized interest representation
organized interest system
organized interests
organized representation
parental education
participatory advantage
participatory inequalities
participatory patterns
policy benefits
political activism
political activity
political advantage
political conflict
political division
political inactivity
political inequality
political involvement
political organizations
political outcomes
political participation
political polarization
political processes
political recruitment
political voice
pressure community
pressure politics
pressure system
public officials
public opinion
public policy
rational prospecting
resource constraint
resource constraints
resource deprived
resource disadvantaged
social class
social processes
socio-economic status
socio-economic stratification
state constitutions
strategic considerations
survey data
surveys
systematic empirical data
trade-offs
unequal political voice
union membership
voluntary associations
voters
voting power
voting strength
voting
websites
Altri autori: VerbaSidney  
BradyHenry E  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice -- Part I. Th inking about Inequality and Political Voice -- 2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America -- 3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions -- 4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy -- 5. Does Unequal Political Voice Matter? -- 6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice -- 7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality -- 8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle -- 9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization -- Part III. Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity -- 10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters -- 11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System -- 12. The Changing Pressure Community -- 13. Beyond Organizational Categories -- 14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity -- Part IV. Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus? -- 15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment -- 16. Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet -- 17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? -- 18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions -- Appendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity -- Appendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation -- Appendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects -- Appendix E: The Washington Representatives Database -- Appendix F: Additional Tables -- Appendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Politically 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The unheavenly chorus  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49433-6
9786613589569
1-4008-4191-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461089603321
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