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Elites and the Idea of Equality

A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States

By: Sidney Verba

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Elites and the Idea of Equality

A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States

By: Sidney Verba

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 equality exist, both within and across nations, and locate the areas of consensus and conflict over equality. No other book has compared data of this sort for these purposes. The authors address several major substantive and theoretical issues: the role of values in relation to egalitarian outcomes; the comparison of values and perceptions about equality in economics (income equality) and politics (equality of influence); and the difference among the nations in the ways political institutions affect the incorporation of new demands for equality into the policymaking process. They pay particular attention to how policy is set on issues of gender equality. This book will be controversial, for some see no room in the understanding of political economy for the analysis of values. It will be consulted by a general audience interested in politics and culture as well as by social scientists. Elites and the Idea of Equality is an informative sequel to Equality in America by Sidney Verba and Gary R. Orren (Harvard University Press), which considers similar topics in a national context.

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Harvard University Press

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0674246853

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9780674246850

International System

Theoretical Essays

By: Klaus Eugen Knorr,Sidney Verba

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International System

Theoretical Essays

By: Klaus Eugen Knorr,Sidney Verba

A sample of recent thinking in international relations theory, World Politics, October 1961, is offered also in a special hard-cover edition. Contributors: M.A. Kaplan, A.L. Burns, T.C. Schelling, R.E. Quandt, J.D. Singer, S. Verba, G. Modelski, F.W. Riggs, C. McClelland, S. Hoffmann. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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0691656525

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9780691656526

Small Groups and Political Behavior

A Study of Leadership

By: Sidney Verba

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Small Groups and Political Behavior

A Study of Leadership

By: Sidney Verba

Contents: Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process: 1. The Culture of the Laboratory. IV. Experiments and the Political Process: 2: Bridging the Gap. V. The Concept of Leadership. VI. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 1. VII. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 2. VIII. Leadership and the Norms of the Group. IX. The Participation Hypothesis, 1: Application of a Small Group Finding. X. The Participation Hypothesis, 2: The Generality of a Small Group Finding. XI. A Concluding Note. Bibliography. Index. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400872529

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9781400872527

Political Culture and Political Development

By: Lucian W. Pye,Sidney Verba

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Political Culture and Political Development

By: Lucian W. Pye,Sidney Verba

Volume 5 in the Studies in Political Development Series. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400875323

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9781400875320

Participation in America

Political Democracy and Social Equality

By: Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie

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Participation in America

Political Democracy and Social Equality

By: Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie

Participation in America represents the largest study ever conducted of the ways in which citizens participate in American political life. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie addresses the question of who participates in the American democratic process, how, and with what effects. They distinguish four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity, and interaction with a public official to achieve a personal goal. Using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities, the authors investigate the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation. Recipient of the Kammerer Award (1972), Participation in America provides fundamental information about the nature of American democracy.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226852962

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9780226852966

Voice and Equality

Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

By: Sidney Verba,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Henry E. Brady

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Voice and Equality

Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

By: Sidney Verba,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Henry E. Brady

This book confirms the idea put forth by 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 with a massive survey of 15,000 people.

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Harvard University Press

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0674942930

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The Private Roots of Public Action

Gender, Equality, and Political Participation

By: Nancy Burns,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba

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The Private Roots of Public Action

Gender, Equality, and Political Participation

By: Nancy Burns,Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba

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 with these institutions produce differences in the resources, skills, and political orientations that facilitate participation--with a cumulative advantage for men. In addition, part of the solution to the puzzle of unequal participation lies in politics itself: where women hold visible public office, women citizens are more politically interested and active. The model that explains gender differences in participation is sufficiently general to apply to participatory disparities among other groups--among the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly or among Latinos, African-Americans and Anglo-Whites.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029089

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Equality in America

The View from the Top

By: Sidney Verba,Gary R. Orren

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Equality in America

The View from the Top

By: Sidney Verba,Gary R. Orren

Verba and Orren dissect 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.

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0674259610

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9780674259614

The Language of Contention

Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012

By: Sidney Tarrow

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The Language of Contention

Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012

By: Sidney Tarrow

This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion and endurance of contentious language. Beginning with the language of revolution developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it examines contentious language at work, in gender and race relations and in nationalist and ethnic movements. It closes with an examination of emotions in contentious politics, reflecting on the changes in political language since 9/11 and assessing the impact of religion and recent innovations in electronic communication on the language of politics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107470730

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An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: Philip Sidney

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An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: Philip Sidney

An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance. Its wit and inventiveness place it among the first great literary productions of the age of Shakespeare. Since 1965 Geoffrey Shepherd's edition of the Apology has been the standard, and this revision of Shepherd's edition, with a new introduction and extensive notes, is designed to introduce Sidney's best-known work to a new generation of readers at the beginning of thetwenty-first century.Unfamiliar words and phrases are glossed, classical and other references explained, and difficult passages analysed in detail. This greatly expanded edition will be of value to all those interested in the Renaissance, from students and teachers at school and university to the inquisitive general reader.

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Manchester University Press

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0719053765

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The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Poems, translations, and correspondence

By: Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

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The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Poems, translations, and correspondence

By: Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

Replete with biographical introduction, discussions of sources and compositional methodology, this two volume work is the first to include all Mary Sidney Herbert's extant works.

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Oxford University Press

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0198112807

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Participation and Political Equality

A Seven-Nation Comparison

By: Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie,Jae-on Kim

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Participation and Political Equality

A Seven-Nation Comparison

By: Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie,Jae-on Kim

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.

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Elites and the Idea of Equality

Elites and the Idea of Equality

International System

International System

Small Groups and Political Behavior

Small Groups and Political Behavior

Political Culture and Political Development

Political Culture and Political Development

Participation in America

Participation in America

Voice and Equality

Voice and Equality

The Private Roots of Public Action

The Private Roots of Public Action

Equality in America

Equality in America

The Language of Contention

The Language of Contention

An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Poems, translations, and correspondence

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Poems, translations, and correspondence

Participation and Political Equality

Participation and Political Equality

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