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Princeton University Press

Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in ...

While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research ..

Harvard University Press

Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class, and Politic...

It is commonplace in contemporary American politics for those who experience economic strain to join together and ask the government for help. The unemployed, by and large, have not done so. In their study, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba look closely at the unemployed and ask why not.Using th..

University of Chicago Press

Participation and Political Equality: A Seven-Nati...

In this survey of political participation in seven nations-Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States-the authors examine the relationship between social, economic, and educational factors and political participation. Author: Verba, Sidney Publisher: Universit..

Harvard University Press

Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American ...

This book confirms Alexis de Tocqueville’s idea, dating back a century and a half, that American democracy is rooted in civil society. Citizens’ involvement in family, school, work, voluntary associations, and religion has a significant impact on their participation as voters, campaigners, donors, c..