5. Workers and Political Voice

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-162
Keyword(s):  
Political Voice

Protest from the Top Down

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mason W. Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Standard Form ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Political Voice ◽  
The Masses

This chapter tests another observable implication of the protest state theory; namely that where protest has normalized as an everyday form of political voice, political elites actively mobilize demonstrators in pursuit of their goals. In other words, rather than serving only as a spontaneous political expression of the masses, protest is often orchestrated and managed by formal political organizations. I first investigate how linkages to political organizations fuel contentious behavior in protest states like Argentina and Bolivia, but are more strongly associated with conventional participation in strongly institutionalized contexts like Chile and Uruguay. Then, utilizing a unique battery of questions from the AmericasBarometer national surveys of Argentina and Bolivia, I also test the hypothesis that clientelism can motivate protest participation in a context where protest has normalized as a standard form of political voice.

Political Voice through Organized Interest Activity

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Lehman Schlozman ◽  
Sidney Verba ◽  
Henry E. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Organizational Activity ◽  
Political Voice ◽  
Organized Interest

This chapter maps the terrain of political activity by organizations using systematic empirical data to reveal something about the political voice emerging from organized involvement in various domains of national politics. For various domains of organizational activity, the chapter characterizes categories of organizations with respect to the likelihood that organizations are active and, if active, how much they do. In the process this chapter clarifies the strategic considerations and resource constraints that shape the involvement of different kinds of organizations in different arenas. Here, it becomes apparent that the policy makers in different institutional settings hear quite different mixes of messages.

The Persistence of Unequal Voice

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Lehman Schlozman ◽  
Sidney Verba ◽  
Henry E. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Persistent Activity ◽  
Panel Surveys ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Economic Stratification ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Voice ◽  
Politically Active ◽  
Over Time

This chapter investigates the differential voice of the advantaged and the disadvantaged. It first considers whether the participatory advantage of those who are high in socio-economic status (SES) persists over time and, in particular, whether the widely noted increase in economic inequality since the late 1970s has been matched by increasing socio-economic stratification of political voice. Then the chapter uses three-wave panel surveys to ask whether ongoing inequalities of political voice reflect not just continuing activity by the same kinds of people but persistent activity by the same individuals. It shows not only that political voice is characterized on an ongoing basis by bias in the direction of the well-educated and affluent but also that, among those who are politically active at any particular time, high-SES political activists are more likely than activists who are lower on the socio-economic ladder to continue to take part politically in the future.

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