Political activity by organized interests, which spend huge sums outside campaigns on policy influence, reinforces unequal voice.
Since our nation's founding, farmers (originally slave-owners) have had an unequal voice.
We all know how communities were looking for a billionaire to have an unequal voice in their school board elections.
For all of the progress women have been making in our professional and personal lives, the birth control debate over the past week highlighted the still-unequal voice that women have on the issues -- even those that relate to their own health and well being.
KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN SIDNEY VERBA HENRY E. BRADY Boston, Nov. 5, 2012 The writers are political scientists at Boston College, Harvard and Berkeley, respectively, and co-authors of "The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy".
Robert Christgau wrote in his review for The Village Voice, "Her voice is as unequal to her vaguely admonitory politics as it was to her declaration of sexual availability, but the music is the message".
Mr. Chávez's plans for Venezuela's oil money would seem to answer a complaint about unequal distribution of wealth voiced throughout Latin America, as well as address calls from American officials and international lenders who have encouraged reforms in developing nations where state resources enrich a corrupt and powerful few.
Readers React Professors Schlozman, Verba and Brady have it fundamentally wrong when they write, "If political voice... is unequal, then equal consideration is jeopardized".
Hadi fled the country in February after ongoing conflict with the Houthis, a group of Shia rebels who had, among other grievances, voiced complaints about the unequal distribution of water.
Are you willing to use the places where you personally enjoy unequal access to leverage to empower other voices to be heard?
