Political equality: What do we know about it?

Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 635-666

  Verba, Sidney ^a   Schlozman, Kay Lehman ^b   Brady, Henry E ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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