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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice
Part I Thinking about Inequality and Political Voice
2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America
3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions
4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy
Part II Inequality of Political Voice and Individual Participation
5. Does Unequal Voice Matter?
6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice
7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality with Nancy Burns
8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle with Jennifer Erkulwater
9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization
Part III Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity
10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters
11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System with Traci Burch and Philip Edward Jones
12. The Changing Pressure Community
13. Beyond Organizational Categories
14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity with Philip Edward Jones and Traci Burch
Part IV Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus?
15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment
16. Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet
17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? with Shauna Shames
18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy
Appendixes
Appendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions
Appendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity
Appendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation
Appendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
Appendix E: The Washington Representatives Database
Appendix F: Additional Tables
Appendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another?
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