In this survey of political participation in seven nations Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States the authors examine the relationship between social, economic, and educational factors and political participation."
In this survey of political participation in seven nations Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States the auth...
Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? Why are they less likely to seek public office or join political organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal participation.
The authors develop new methods to trace gender differences in political activity to the nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family, school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and church. Different experiences...
Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active...
A model of meticulous and incisive scholarship, Equality in America dissects American attitudes toward equality by placing those beliefs in historical context and demonstrating a relationship between political and economic equality. The book is based on a study of leaders from all significant sectors of American society, including top business and labor leaders, those highest in the media and in political parties, and leaders from the feminist and civil rights movements.
The book takes on the thorny puzzle of how economic inequality, which is the inevitable result of a free...
A model of meticulous and incisive scholarship, Equality in America dissects American attitudes toward equality by placing those beliefs in ...
This book confirms the idea put forth nearly a century and a half ago by Alexis de Tocqueville, that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism--citizens' involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists.
The authors analyze civic activity as none have before. They have created an original survey of 15,000 individuals, which includes 2,500 personal interviews, that focuses on the central issues of involvement: how people come to be active, their motivations, their...
This book confirms the idea put forth nearly a century and a half ago by Alexis de Tocqueville, that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntar...
This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963.
This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: t...
In this volume, Almond and Verba focus their origional text and subject its philosophy, its methodology, its national and comparative findings to searching critiques by appropriate scholars'.
In this volume, Almond and Verba focus their origional text and subject its philosophy, its methodology, its national and comparative findings to sear...
It is commonplace in contemporary American politics for those who experience economic strain to join together and ask the government for help. The unemployed, by and large, have not done so. In their study, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba look closely at the unemployed and ask why not.
Using the results of a large-scale survey supplemented by intensive interviews, the authors consider the political attitudes and behavior of the unemployed: how much hardship they feel, how they interpret their joblessness, what they do about it, how they view the American social order, and how...
It is commonplace in contemporary American politics for those who experience economic strain to join together and ask the government for help. The ...
This book provides insight into an ongoing debate among political scientists and sociologist: why is political participation in some nations distributed evenly across economic, social, and educational lines, whereas other nations foster participation only by their privileged classes?
This book provides insight into an ongoing debate among political scientists and sociologist: why is political participation in some nations distribut...
What equality means in three modern democracies, both to leaders of important groups and to challengers of the status quo, is the subject of this wide-ranging canvass of perceptions and policy. It is based on extensive questionnaire data gathered from leaders in various segments of society in each countrybusiness, labor unions, farm organizations, political parties, the media-as well as from groups that are seeking greater equalityfeminists, black leaders in the United States, leaders of the Burakumin in Japan. The authors describe the extent to which the same meanings of...
What equality means in three modern democracies, both to leaders of important groups and to challengers of the status quo, is the s...
