Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age

by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady

Book Overview

How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources

The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative. Those who are well educated and affluent carry megaphones. The less privileged speak in a whisper. Relying on three decades of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691180555
• ISBN13: 9780691180557
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"