- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction: Democracy 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 -
5 Does Unequal Political Voice Matter? -
6 The Persistence of Unequal Voice -
7 Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality -
8 Political Participation over the Life Cycle -
9 Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization -
10 Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters -
11 Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System -
12 The Changing Pressure Community -
13 Beyond Organizational Categories -
14 Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity -
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? -
18 Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy -
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? - Index
The Changing Pressure Community
The Changing Pressure Community
- Chapter:
- (p.347) 12 The Changing Pressure Community
- Source:
- The Unheavenly Chorus
- Author(s):
Kay Lehman Schlozman
Sidney Verba
Henry E. Brady
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter examines the evolution of the Washington pressure community, assessing changes in the number and distribution of active organizations over a twenty-five-year span. Of special concern is whether these patterns—in particular, the strong representation of business interests in contrast to the economic interests of less economically advantaged—are unique to a 2001 analysis or are a persistent aspect of organized interest representation in Washington. The chapter reveals how most of the organizations new to the pressure community are not organizations that never existed before; rather, they are organizations that have been outside of politics and, for reasons that are less well studied, are activated into politics. Thus the shape of the pressure community is influenced by a number of factors—of which an important one, but far from the only one, is the set of processes by which new political organizations come into being.
Keywords: pressure community, Washington pressure community, business interests, economic interests, organized interest representation, political organizations
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction: Democracy 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 -
5 Does Unequal Political Voice Matter? -
6 The Persistence of Unequal Voice -
7 Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality -
8 Political Participation over the Life Cycle -
9 Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization -
10 Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters -
11 Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System -
12 The Changing Pressure Community -
13 Beyond Organizational Categories -
14 Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity -
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? -
18 Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy -
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? - Index
