- 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
Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet
Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet
- Chapter:
- (p.483) 16 Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet
- Source:
- The Unheavenly Chorus
- Author(s):
Kay Lehman Schlozman
Sidney Verba
Henry E. Brady
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter looks at the potentially democratizing impact of the Internet on political participation, and asks both individuals and organizations the same kinds of questions already posed earlier regarding whether processes of political recruitment can alter familiar participatory patterns. If the Internet is bringing new people and new organizations into politics, the chapter considers if it is bringing new kinds of people and new kinds of interests into political activity. Furthermore, even if the Internet is effective in generating additional political activity, the chapter considers if this new activity is simply replicating the same participatory inequalities that have emerged over and over in this volume.
Keywords: Internet, political participation, political recruitment, participatory patterns, political activity, participatory inequalities
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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
