@article{1478265,
      author = {Burns, Nancy,  and Schlozman, Kay Lehman,  and Verba,  Sidney, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478265},
      title = {The Private Roots of Public Action : Gender, Equality, and  Political Participation /},
      abstract = {Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival  of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women  continue to be less politically active than men? Why are  they less likely to seek public office or join political  organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the  most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal  participation. The authors develop new methods to trace  gender differences in political activity to the  nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family,  school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and  church. Different experiences with these institutions  produce differences in the resources, skills, and political  orientations that facilitate participation--with a  cumulative advantage for men. In addition, part of the  solution to the puzzle of unequal participation lies in  politics itself: where women hold visible public office,  women citizens are more politically interested and active.  The model that explains gender differences in participation  is sufficiently general to apply to participatory  disparities among other groups--among the young, the  middle-aged, and the elderly or among Latinos,  African-Americans and Anglo-Whites.Table of Contents:  Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Citizenship and Unequal  Participation 2. Studying Gender and Participation: A Brief  Discourse on Method 3. Civic Activity: Political and  Non-Political 4. The Political Worlds of Men and Women 5.  The Legacy of Home and School 6. Domestic Tranquility: The  Beliefs of Wives and Husbands 7. Domestic Hierarchy: The  Household as a Social System 8. The Workplace Roots of  Political Activity 9. The Realm of Voluntarism:  Non-Political Associations and Religious Institutions 10.  Gender, Institutions, and Political Participation 11.  Gender, Race or Ethnicity, and Participation 12. Family  Life and Political Life 13. What If Politics Weren't a  Man's Game? 14. Conclusion: The Private Roots of Public  Action Appendixes A. Numbers of Cases B. Ranges of  Variables C. Supplementary Tables D. Explanation of  Outcomes Analysis Index Reviews of this book: The Private  Roots of Public Action begins with common explanations for  the gender difference in participation, from domestic  demands on women's time and psychic space through the  effects of the patriarchal family, socioeconomic  hierarchies, and political socialization.The results of  [this] novel analysis are complex and interesting.The  authors extend their model to examine the relationship  between class, race or ethnicity, and political  participation. This unique and accessible volume will be  influential in the fields of political socialization and  gender and politics. Strongly recommended.--B. E. Marston,  ChoiceThe Private Roots of Public Action is the most  comprehensive examination of the similarities and  differences in the political activity of women and men. The  range of inquiry is enormous. Burns, Schlozman and Verba  delve not only into political activity but also into the  processes in the family, in the workplace, in places of  worship, and in voluntary associations that promote and  inhibit political involvement. This book goes beyond the  literature in connecting to an enormous range of  scholarship in political science, economics, and sociology.  This is a fine piece of work.--John Mark Hansen, University  of ChicagoThe Private Roots of Public Action is a very  important book. It pushes research on gender and  participation to a whole new level, and reshapes the agenda  as far as our thinking and our research about the  connections among family life, the workplace, institutions  of civil society, and political and governmental  institutions. The authors demonstrate the importance of  understanding political participation within a larger  context in a way that does justice to the complexity of},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029088},
      recid = {1478265},
      pages = {1 online resource (471 p.)},
}