Political voice in an age of inequality

America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 140-173

  Schlozman, Kay Lehman ^a   Burch, Traci ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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