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The unheavenly chorus unequal political voice and the broken promise of American democracy /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Ebook Central (EBC)
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1 online resource (xxix, 693 pages) : illustrations. |
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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.