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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice | |
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| Thinking about Inequality and Political Voice | |
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| The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America | |
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| The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions | |
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| Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy | |
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| Inequality of Political Voice and Individual Participation | |
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| Does Unequal Voice Matter? | |
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| The Persistence of Unequal Voice | |
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| Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality with Nancy Burns | |
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| Political Participation over the Life Cycle with Jennifer Erkulwater | |
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| Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization | |
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| Inequality of Political Voice and Organized Interest Activity | |
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| Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters | |
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| Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System with Traci Burch and Philip Edward Jones | |
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| The Changing Pressure Community | |
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| Beyond Organizational Categories | |
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| Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity with Philip Edward Jones and Traci Burch | |
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| Can We Change the Accent of the Unheavenly Chorus? | |
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| Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment | |
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| Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet | |
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| What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? with Shauna Shames | |
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| Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions | |
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| The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity | |
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| The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation | |
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| Age, Period, and Cohort Effects | |
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| The Washington Representatives Database | |
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| Additional Tables | |
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| Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? | |
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| Index | |