The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

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

Book Overview

Why American democracy favors the affluent and educated

Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most comprehensive and systematic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691154848
• ISBN13: 9780691154848
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.0" x 9.3"