Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age
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Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age
By (Author) Kay Lehman Schlozman
By (author) Henry E. Brady
By (author) Sidney Verba
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
12th May 2020
United States
Classifications
Adult Education
Non Fiction
Elections and referenda / suffrage
Central / national / federal government policies
Human rights, civil rights
324.62
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Paperback
328
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative. Those who are well educated and afflue
Reviews
"Kay Lehman Schlozman, Winner of the 2018 Warren Miller Award, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association"
"[Unequal and Unrepresented] is a valuable scholarly tool and a carefully constructed compilation of empirical evidence to support an argument whose conclusions are, as the authors write, not especially encouraging." * Publishers Weekly *
Author Bio
Kay Lehman Schlozman is the J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Henry E. Brady is dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Sidney Verba is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and research professor of government at Harvard University.
