Kay Lehman Schlozman

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Kay Lehman Schlozman's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Chicago
Masters Political Science University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Kay Lehman Schlozman is an American political scientist, currently the J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Schlozman has made fundamental advancements to the study of participation in American politics, and was a pioneer in the field of gender and politics. Her contributions include the theory of civic voluntarism, several landmark studies on the relationship between access to resources and different types of political participation, and related investigations into the nature of civic culture. Schlozman has one of the highest citation counts of any political scientist, including being among the top 50 most cited active political scientists and top 10 most cited women in the discipline. She worked closely with Sidney Verba for nearly 50 years, first as his student and then as his collaborator.

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Kay Lehman Schlozman's Published Works

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Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (1996) (7090)
Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation (1995) (2470)
The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation (2001) (898)
Knowing and Caring about Politics: Gender and Political Engagement (1997) (768)
Organized interests and American democracy (1986) (754)
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy (2012) (645)
Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. (1996) (465)
Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say? (1993) (417)
Race, Ethnicity and Political Resources: Participation in the United States (1993) (381)
Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists (1999) (368)
Gender and the Pathways to Participation: The Role of Resources (1994) (363)
Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet (2010) (332)
Gender and Citizen Participation: Is There a Different Voice? (1995) (214)
"What Happened at Work Today?": A Multistage Model of Gender, Employment, and Political Participation (1999) (209)
The Internet and Civic Engagement (2009) (209)
What Accent the Heavenly Chorus? Political Equality and the American Pressure System (1984) (194)
The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation (1997) (150)
Unequal at the starting line: Creating participatory inequalities across generations and among groups (2003) (140)
Participation's Not a Paradox: The View from American Activists (1995) (136)
More of the Same: Washington Pressure Group Activity in a Decade of Change (1983) (123)
Family ties: Understanding the intergenerational transmission of political participation (2005) (104)
The Private Roots of Public Action (2001) (103)
Candidate Gender and Congressional Campaign Receipts (1986) (94)
Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Democracy (1995) (94)
Generations and Politics: A Panel Study of Young Adults and Their Parents. (1982) (88)
Inequalities of political voice (2007) (82)
Rational Action and Political Activity (2000) (57)
IMAGES OF AN UNBIASED INTEREST SYSTEM (2015) (56)
Unemployment, Class Consciousness, and Radical Politics: What Didn't Happen in the Thirties (1977) (39)
Political Mobility and Political Reproduction from Generation to Generation (2015) (37)
The Future of Political Science : 100 Perspectives (2009) (35)
Unequal and Unrepresented (2018) (29)
11. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System (2012) (22)
Organizations and the Democratic Representation of Interests: What Does It Mean When Those Organizations Have No Members? (2015) (22)
The Political Involvement of Adolescents. (1982) (17)
What's happened to the gender gap in political participation?: How might we explain it? (2018) (13)
Counting the Voices in the Heavenly Chorus: Pressure Participants in Washington Politics (2012) (12)
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus (2010) (9)
External Reviews in Tenure and Promotions Decisions: How Does the Process Work? How Should It? (1998) (9)
Vox Populi: Public Opinion and the Democratic Dilemma (2003) (9)
7. Unequal at the Starting Line: The Intergenerational Persistence of Political Inequality (2012) (7)
Who Speaks? Citizen Political Voice on the Internet Commons (2011) (7)
Louder Chorus — Same Accent: The Representation of Interests in Pressure Politics, 1981–2011 (2013) (6)
Who sings in the heavenly chorus? The shape of the organized interest system: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy (2012) (5)
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? Political Inequality and the Pressure System (2008) (5)
Sexual Harassment of Students: What I Learned in the Library (1991) (4)
Reply to Reviews (1997) (4)
Corporate Lobbying Activity in American Politics (2007) (4)
On Inequality and Political Voice: Response to Stephen Earl Bennett's Critique (2006) (4)
Two Concerns about Ten Misconceptions (2013) (4)
Coping with the American Dream: Maintaining Self-Respect in an Achieving Society (1976) (4)
Redistribution, Polarization, and Medians: Bringing Data to Downsian Puzzles (2009) (3)
Mobilizing Interest Groups in America: Patrons, Professions, and Social Movements . By Jack L. Walker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. 272p. $39.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. (1992) (3)
Political voice in an age of inequality (2009) (3)
Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America – By Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini (2011) (2)
The Private Roots of Public Life: Gender and the Paradox of Political Inequality (2001) (2)
Advanced Placement in Political Science Begins in 1987 (1986) (2)
Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy edited by Thomas Ambrosio (2003) (2)
Growing Economic Inequality and Its (Partially) Political Roots (2017) (2)
8. Political Participation over the Life Cycle (2012) (2)
THE SOCIOLOGICAL BASES OF POLITICAL PREFERENCES AND BEHAVIOR (2009) (1)
Political Activity by American Corporations (2007) (1)
Poverty and Power: The Political Representation of Poor Americans . By Imig Douglas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. 159p. $37.50. (1996) (1)
The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy in Making . By John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Robert H. Salisbury. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. 450p. $39.95. (1994) (1)
WHY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE VOLUNTEERING IN RECORD (2005) (1)
9. Political Activism and Electoral Democracy: Perspectives on Economic Inequality and Political Polarization (2012) (1)
Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and Community. Edited by Alice S. Rossi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xii+560. $42.00. (2002) (1)
SENDING THEM A MESSAGE—GETTING A REPLY: (2021) (1)
17. What, if Anything, Is to Be Done? (2012) (1)
Class Consciousness in Contemporary America: What Is It? Who Has It? What Difference Does It Make?. (1978) (1)
Donald Trump and the Politics of Anxiety and Resentment (2017) (1)
Sending messages, getting replies (1987) (1)
Ethics and Activism: The Theory and Practice of Political Morality. Michael L. GrossPolitical Activists in America: The Identity Construction Model of Political Participation. Nathan Teske (1999) (1)
A Reply to the Evaluation of the AP Program in Political Science (1989) (1)
12. The Changing Pressure Community (2012) (0)
Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life – By Andrew J. Perrin (2008) (0)
What I Learned in the Library (2016) (0)
“On the Free Rider Problem” Jane Mansbridge (2009) (0)
The Emerging Field of Education Policy (2009) (0)
“Gender Inequality” Nancy Burns (2009) (0)
13. Beyond Organizational Categories (2012) (0)
18. Conclusion: Equal Voice and the Promise of American Democracy (2012) (0)
Appendix E: The Washington Representatives Database (2012) (0)
Is America Becoming a more Class-Based Society? (2009) (0)
Appendix G: Do Online and Offline Political Activists Differ from One Another? (2012) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2016) (0)
15. Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation (1995) (0)
Appendix C: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation (2012) (0)
3. The Context: Growing Economic Inequality and Weakening Unions (2012) (0)
Response to Stephen Earl Bennett (2006) (0)
Hard Hats and Ethnics Have Taken a Bum Rap: Public Opinion and Youth Dissent. (1977) (0)
Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda by Patricia Heidotting Conley (2002) (0)
“Elite Tough Talk and the Tides of History” Henry E. Brady (2009) (0)
Book Reviews: American Politics (1993) (0)
POSC 807: American Political Behavior (2012) (0)
6. The Persistence of Unequal Voice (2012) (0)
“Path Dependence” Peter A. Hall (2009) (0)
American Politics (1987) (0)
Counting the Voices in the Heavenly Chorus (2011) (0)
Can the Unemployed be Studied Ahistorically@@@Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response. (1981) (0)
1. Introduction: Democracy and Political Voice (2012) (0)
Conclusion:: Why Did We Do It That Way Then? What Might We Do Differently Now? (2016) (0)
2. The (Ambivalent) Tradition of Equality in America (2012) (0)
10. Political Voice through Organized Interests: Introductory Matters (2012) (0)
APSA Contributors (2018) (0)
5. Does Unequal Political Voice Matter (2012) (0)
14. Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity (2012) (0)
Introduction (2022) (0)
Political voice through organized interest activity: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy (2012) (0)
Appendix A: Equality and the State and U.S. Constitutions (2012) (0)
4. Equal Voice and the Dilemmas of Democracy (2012) (0)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Images of an unbiased interest system (2015) (0)
Organized Interests and Amicus Briefs: Who Files? Who Fights Whom? Who Wins? (2007) (0)
15. Breaking the Pattern through Political Recruitment (2012) (0)
Appendix B: The Persistence of Political and Nonpolitical Activity (2012) (0)
A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage (2020) (0)
Appendix F: Additional Tables (2012) (0)
Appendix D: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects (2012) (0)
“Independent Electoral Commissions” Nahomi Ichino (2009) (0)
The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups. By Berry Jeffrey M.. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1999. 192p. $24.95. (2000) (0)
“Negative Ads — Cynical Public?” Arthur Sanders (2009) (0)
The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions by Karpowitz, Christopher F., and Tali Mendelberg (2015) (0)
“Political Science: What Should We Know?” David Butler (2009) (0)
“Community Social Capital” Kristi Andersen (2009) (0)
Gender and Social Capital (2006) (0)
Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. By Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+359. (2007) (0)
To Participate or Deliberate—Is that the question? (2009) (0)

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