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Kay Lehman Schlozman

Kay Lehman Schlozman

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Political Science

D-Index
37
Citations
17015
World Ranking
606
National Ranking
333

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Kay Lehman Schlozman is affiliated with Boston College in the United States and has contributed to the field of social sciences, with a focus on political science, international relations, and gender studies. Their research encompasses topics such as gender politics and representation, social policy and reform studies, and electoral systems and political participation.

Recent publications include:

  • "A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage," 2020, Journal of Women Politics & Policy
  • "Introduction," 2022, Daedalus
  • "A Democracy That Works: How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States. By Stephen Amberg. New York: Routledge, 2023. 378p. $180.00 cloth. - The New Power Elite. By Heather Gautney. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336p. $29.95 cloth.," 2023, Perspectives on Politics
  • "Sidney Verba," 2023, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge
  • "Ungoverning: the attack on the administrative state and the politics of chaos By Russell Muirhead, Nancy L. Rosenblum. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $29.95," 2025, Political Psychology

Kay Lehman Schlozman has worked with several frequent co-authors, including Henry E. Brady, Shauna Shames, Sara Morell, Ashley Jardina, and Nancy Burns.

Their research has appeared in various publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Women Politics & Policy
  • Daedalus
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge
  • Political Psychology

In addition to articles, Schlozman has contributed to book publications. One noted publication is "What's Happened to the Gender Gap in Political Activity?" published by Cambridge University Press, with work cited twice.

Kay Lehman Schlozman was awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation

    Henry E. Brady;Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • Knowing and Caring About Politics: Gender and Political Engagement

    Sidney Verba;Nancy Burns;Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation

    Nancy Burns;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba

  • Organized interests and American democracy

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;John T. Tierney

  • Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say?.

    Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry Brady;Norman H. Nie

  • Race, Ethnicity and Political Resources: Participation in the United States

    Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry Brady;Norman H. Nie

  • Gender and the Pathways to Participation: The Role of Resources

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Nancy Burns;Sidney Verba

  • Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists

    Henry E. Brady;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba

  • Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics.

    Nina Eliasoph;Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry E. Brady

  • The Private Roots of Public Action

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  • Gender and Citizen Participation: Is There a Different Voice?

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Nancy Burns;Sidney Verba;Jesse Donahue

  • "What Happened at Work Today?": A Multistage Model of Gender, Employment, and Political Participation

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Nancy Burns;Sidney Verba

  • The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation

    Nancy Burns;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba

  • Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control

    Robert Alan Dahl

  • What Accent the Heavenly Chorus? Political Equality and the American Pressure System

    Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • Unequal at the starting line: Creating participatory inequalities across generations and among groups

    Sidney Verba;Nancy Burns;Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • The Internet and Civic Engagement

    Aaron Smith;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry Brady

  • Participation's Not a Paradox: The View from American Activists

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Sidney Verba;Henry E. Brady

  • Candidate Gender and Congressional Campaign Receipts

    Carole Jean Uhlaner;Kay Lehman Schlozman

  • Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation.

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Sidney Verba;Kay Lehman Schlozman;Henry E. Brady

Frequent Co-Authors

Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba Harvard University
Henry E. Brady
Henry E. Brady University of California, Berkeley
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University
Benjamin I. Page
Benjamin I. Page Northwestern University
Jeremy Richardson
Jeremy Richardson University of Oxford
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Jennifer L. Hochschild Harvard University
Morris P. Fiorina
Morris P. Fiorina Stanford University
Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M. Kent Jennings
M. Kent Jennings University of California, Santa Barbara
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University

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