books by Kay Lehman Schlozman (american equality politics)

books by Kay Lehman Schlozman

books:

The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation
Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, ...

Harvard University Press, 2001

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 ...

Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

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Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, ...

Harvard University Press, 2006

Understanding participation
This book provides several useful ways to understand the phenomenon of political participation -or the absence of it. Verba and his collaborators examine several variables that encourage people's involvement in politics, showing clearly that if differential rates of political activity reflect not different motivations, but differential resources, democracy is potentially threatened. The book ...