The Unheavenly Chorus Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy 1st edition by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry Brady ISBN 1400841917 9781400841912
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ISBN 10: 1400841917
ISBN 13: 9781400841912
Author: Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry Brady
Why American democracy favors the affluent and educated 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.
The Unheavenly Chorus Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy 1st Table of contents:
1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice
Part I Thinking 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
Part II Inequality of Political Voice and Individual Participation
5. Does Unequal Voice Matter?
6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice
7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality with Nancy Burns
8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle with Jennifer Erkulwater
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 with Traci Burch and Philip Edward Jones
12. The Changing Pressure Community
13. Beyond Organizational Categories
14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity with Philip Edward Jones and Traci Burch
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? with Shauna Shames
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
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