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The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Kay Lehman Schlozman
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Description for The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Paperback. Looks 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. Num Pages: 728 pages, 59 line illus. 58 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1040.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
728
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1039g
Number of Pages
728
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691159867
SKU
V9780691159867
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About Kay Lehman Schlozman
Kay Lehman Schlozman is the J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Sidney Verba is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University. Henry E. Brady is Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at ... Read more
Reviews for The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Winner of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers "Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady are the nation's leading analysts of participatory inequality, and The Unheavenly Chorus is their magnum opus
a wide-ranging, heavily statistical analysis of how Americans ... Read more
a wide-ranging, heavily statistical analysis of how Americans ... Read more