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Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People's Voice in the New Gilded Age is a non-fiction book written by American political scientists Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba. The authors explain how the political voice of Americans are unequal and unrepresentative, using statistical data and real-life examples.

Background
The three authors published Voice and Equality: Civic voluntarism and American Politics, in 1995. The book argues that the inequality of political voice in America is caused by the differing extent of political participation among citizens. They name political participation as "civic voluntarism", which consists of 3 factors: resources (time, money, and skills), psychological engagement with politics, and access to networks that allow them to be recruited into the political life. Their next book in 2012, The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal political voice and the broken promise of American democracy, presents data about how class-based political inequality taints American democracy by hindering equal political voice and equal consideration of citizens' needs. Unequal and Unrepresented is the last book of their continuous analysis.

Chapters
1 Introduction

Part 1

2 What Do We Mean by Political Voice? Does Equal Voice Matter?

3 The Roots of Citizen Participation: The Civic Voluntarism Model

Part 2

4 Who Exercises Political Voice?

5 The Noisy and the Silent: Divergent Preferences and Needs

6 Do Digital Technologies Make a Difference?

7 Social Movements and Ordinary Recruitment

Part 3

8 Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus? The Shape of the Organized Interest System (with Philip E. Jones)

9 Representing Interests through Organizational Activity (with Philip E. Jones)

Part 4

10 Growing Economic Inequality and Its (Partially) Political Roots

11 Has it Always Been This Way?

12 Can We Do Anything about It?

13 Unequal Voice in an Unequal Age

Content
The book finalizes the theory of the authors' previous books, providing updated data and analysis. It starts by defining the meaning of political voice and the reason why equal political voice matters. Then the authors explain the civic voluntarism model, showing how differences in resources lead to inequalities in political activity. Through empirical data, the books proves how individual socioeconomic status, political mobilization, and organizational activity in Washington politics lead to unequal political voice. In the last part of the book, the authors show the growth of economic inequality throughout the late 20th century until now, and how political inequality has changed accordingly. The book ends with the possibilities of political reforms that could reduce inequalities.

Reception
Publishers Weekly favorably reviewed the book, commenting that "it is a valuable scholarly tool and a carefully constructed compilation of empirical evidence to support an argument whose conclusions are, as the authors write, ‘not especially encouraging."