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On Inequality and Political Voice: Response to Stephen Earl Bennett's Critique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2006

Kay Lehman Schlozman
Affiliation:
Boston College

Extract

In the assembled critiques, the report of the APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy is labeled simultaneously “dangerous quackery” and a “timid document.” Are we all reading the same report? At least when it comes to Stephen Earl Bennett's commentary (2006), probably not.

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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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