| Description |
xix, 640 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Defining Political Participation -- 3. Political Participation: How Much? About What? -- 4. Interpreting Political Activity: A Report from Activists -- 5. Recruiting Political Activists -- 6. Thinking about Participatory Representation -- 7. Who Participates? Economic Circumstances and Needs -- 8. Who Participates? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender -- 9. Explaining Participation: Introductory Considerations -- 10. Resources for Politics: Time and Money -- 11. Resources for Politics: Civic Skills -- 12. Resources, Engagement, and Political Activity -- 13. Institutions and Recruitment -- 14. Participation and the Politics of Issue Engagement -- 15. From Generation to Generation: The Roots of Participatory Factors -- 16. The Participatory Process and the Sources of Representational Distortion -- 17. Conclusion: Voice and Equality in Democratic Participation -- App. A. Citizen Participation Sample -- App. B. Questions and Variables |
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App. C. Measuring Representation and Distortion -- App. D. Specification of the Civic Voluntarism Model -- App. E. Measuring the Amount of Activity -- App. F. Supplementary Tables |
| Analysis |
Attitudes |
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Decision making |
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Democracy |
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Overseas item |
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Political participation |
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Pressure groups |
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Statistics |
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Surveys |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political activists -- United States.
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Political participation -- United States.
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Voluntarism -- United States.
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| Author |
Brady, Henry E.
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Schlozman, Kay Lehman, 1946-
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| LC no. |
95016501 |
| ISBN |
0674942922 (alk. paper) |
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0674942930 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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