The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Kay Lehman Schlozman
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Published:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781400841912
Print ISBN:
9780691154848
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The Uphill Road to Reform The Uphill Road to Reform
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Political Reform: Results or Consequences? Political Reform: Results or Consequences?
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Strategies for Ameliorating Inequalities of Political Voice Strategies for Ameliorating Inequalities of Political Voice
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Ensuring Votes of Equal Weight Ensuring Votes of Equal Weight
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Mandating a Participatory Ceiling Mandating a Participatory Ceiling
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Campaign Finance Campaign Finance
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Restrictions on Voting Restrictions on Voting
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Limiting Contacts with Policy Makers Limiting Contacts with Policy Makers
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Regulating Protests Regulating Protests
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Establishing a Participatory Floor Establishing a Participatory Floor
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Lowering Barriers to Activity Lowering Barriers to Activity
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Recruiting Activity Recruiting Activity
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Developing Civic Capacity Developing Civic Capacity
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Chapter
17 What, if Anything, Is to Be Done?
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Pages
534–573
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Published:April 2012
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Schlozman, Kay Lehman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady, 'What, if Anything, Is to Be Done?', The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy (Princeton, NJ , 2012; online edn, Princeton Scholarship Online, 19 Oct. 2017), https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154848.003.0017, accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on changes that would have the result of making the participatory input from individuals and organizations more representative of the American public in terms of a variety of politically relevant attributes—not only such demographic characteristics as social class, race, gender, or age but also preferences and needs for government policy. It seeks to provide some analytical hooks to facilitate systematic thinking about the various strategies that might reduce inequalities of political voice, and emphasizes the reasons as to why political change is so difficult to realize and why it is so often a disappointment when it is achieved.
Keywords:
political change, political reform, political attributes, participatory input, political voice, inequalities
Subject
Politics
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