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List of Figures | p. ix |
List of Tables | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xvii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice | p. 1 |
Thinking about Inequality and Political Voice | |
The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America | p. 31 |
The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions | p. 69 |
Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy | p. 96 |
Inequality of Political Voice and Individual Participation | |
Does Unequal Voice Matter? | p. 117 |
The Persistence of Unequal Voice | p. 147 |
Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality with Nancy Burns | p. 177 |
Political Participation over the Life Cycle with Jennifer Erkulwater | p. 199 |
Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization | p. 232 |
Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity | |
Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters | p. 265 |
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System | p. 312 |
The Changing Pressure Community | p. 347 |
Beyond Organizational Categories | p. 370 |
Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity | p. 393 |
Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus? | |
Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment | p. 447 |
Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet | p. 483 |
What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? | p. 534 |
Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy | p. 574 |
Appendixes | |
Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions | p. 605 |
The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity | p. 608 |
The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation | p. 616 |
Age, Period, and Cohort Effects | p. 619 |
The Washington Representatives Database | p. 621 |
Additional Tables | p. 645 |
Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? | p. 649 |
Index | p. 655 |
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