{"product_id":"the-unheavenly-chorus-9780691154848","title":"The Unheavenly Chorus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Government \u0026amp; 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 try to make themselves heard as individuals and through organizations of different kinds.\"--Paul Starr, New Republic \"Superb.\"--John Diiulio, America \"In The Unheavenly Chorus, [the authors] present a timely and wide-ranging analysis that catalogs and describes the nature and magnitude of political inequality in the United States... These esteemed authors, who have devoted their careers to the study of political participation, have assembled in 718 pages the most complete compendium of political inequality we have--its definition, sources, magnitude, and consequences--together with a consideration of changes in participatory processes that might alleviate inequalities in political voice. In the end, it is a troubling story about the state of American democracy.\"--Andrea Louise Campbell, Harvard Magazine \"In The Unheavenly Chorus, the authors take direct aim at how economic inequality contributes to inequality in citizen involvement in politics. Over the course of 600 pages, they assiduously document that politics in America is a sport played mostly by members of the upper and upper-middle classes.\"--Nolan McCarty, American Interest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures ix  List of Tables xiii  Preface xvii  Acknowledgments xxv  Chapter 1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice 1      PART I: Thinking about Inequality and Political Voice  Chapter 2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America 31  Chapter 3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions 69  Chapter 4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy 96      PART II: Inequality of Political Voice and Individual Participation  Chapter 5. Does Unequal Voice Matter? 117  Chapter 6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice 147  Chapter 7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality with Nancy Burns 177  Chapter 8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle with Jennifer Erkulwater 199  Chapter 9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization 232      PART III: Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity  Chapter 10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters 265  Chapter 11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? Th e Shape of the Organized Interest System with Traci Burch and Philip Edward Jones 312  Chapter 12. The Changing Pressure Community 347  Chapter 13. Beyond Organizational Categories 370  Chapter 14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity with Philip Edward Jones and Traci Burch 393      PART IV: Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus?  Chapter 15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment 447  Chapter 16. Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet 483  Chapter 17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? with Shauna Shames 534  Chapter 18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy 574      Appendixes  Appendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions 605  Appendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity 608  Appendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation 616  Appendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects 619  Appendix E: The Washington Representatives Database 621  Appendix F: Additional Tables 645  Appendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? 649  Index 655","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403791638871,"sku":"9780691154848","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691154848.jpg?v=1730484555","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-unheavenly-chorus-9780691154848","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}