Unequal and Unrepresented - Political Inequality and the People''s Voice in the New Gilded Age

How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resourcesThe 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

About the author

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.

Summary

How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resourcesThe 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

Additional text

"[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.’"

Product details

• Authors: Henry E. Brady, Brady Henry E., Kay Lehman Schlozman, Kay Lehman Brady Schlozman, Schlozman Kay Lehman, Sidney Verba
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780691180557
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18055-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Elections & referenda, Central government policies, Elections and referenda / suffrage