PERSONAL DATA SHEET
Kay Lehman Schlozman
Address:
45 Warren Street Dept. of Political Science Brookline, MA 02445 Boston College Tel: (617) 566-1101 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Fax: (617) 734-5756 Tel: (617) 552-4174 Fax: (617) 552-2435 e-mail: kschloz@ bc.edu
Current Position:
J. Joseph Moakley Professor Department of Political Science Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Experience:
Assistant Professor to Professor, 1974-; Chair, 2000-2003 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2018-2019 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Visiting Professor, 1987-1988, 1993-1994, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2013-2014 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Professor, 2005 University of Paris 7 (Denis Diderot)
Fulbright Lecturer, 1972-1973 University of Aix-Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France
Academic Training:
University of Chicago 1968-1973 M.A., Ph.D. in Political Science
Wellesley College 1964-1968 B.A. in Sociology; Minor in English
2 Fellowships and Awards:
Warren E. Miller Lifetime Achievement Award, Section on Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, American Political Science Association, 2018.
Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award, Section on Political Organizations and Parties, American Political Science Association, 2016.
Resident Scholar, Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, October-November, 2015
PROSE Awards, Government and Politics and Excellence in Social Sciences, American Association of Publishers, 2012
AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research, 2012.
Philip E. Converse Prize, American Political Science Association, 2007
Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Political Science and the American Political Science Association, 2006
Senior Research Fellow, Ash Institute, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2006-2007
Rowman and Littlefield Prize for Innovative Teaching, American Political Science Association, 2004
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003-
Victoria Schuck Prize, American Political Science Association, 2002 (Co- winner)
Paper Prize, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Section, American Political Science Association, 1996
Breckinridge Prize, Midwest Political Science Assn., 1984, 1994
Russell Sage Foundation Grant, 1985-1986
Mellon Grant, 1981-1983
Fulbright Grant, 1972-1973
Ford Foundation Fellow, 1968-1972
Phi Beta Kappa, 1968
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Publications -- Books:
Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018) (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba).
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012) (with Sidney Verba and Henry Brady) (Winner of PROSE Awards, Government and Politics and Excellence in Social Sciences, American Association of Publishers).
The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2009) (edited with Gary King and Norman H. Nie).
The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality and Political Participation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001) (with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba) (Co-winner: Schuck Prize, American Political Science Association).
Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) (with Sidney Verba and Henry Brady)(Winner: Philip Converse Prize, American Political Science Association; and AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research, for a book that has influenced the understanding or application of survey research methodology, and/or stimulated theoretical and scientific research in public opinion).
Elections in America (Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin, 1987) (editor).
Organized Interests and American Democracy (New York: Harper and Row, 1986) (with John T. Tierney).
Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979) (with Sidney Verba).
Articles and Book Chapters:
“What Happened to the Gender Gap in Participation?” in Lee Ann Banaszak and Holly McCammon, eds., 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Nancy Burns, Ashley Jardina, Shauna Shames, and Sidney Verba).
“Growing Economic Inequality and Its (Partially) Political Roots,” Religions 8 (2017): 97 (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba).
“Why Did We Do It That Way Then? What Might We Do Differently Now?” in Casey Klofstad, ed., New Advances in the Study of Civic Voluntarism
4 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2016) (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba).
“Organizations and the Democratic Representation of Interests: What Does It Mean When Those Organizations Have No Members?” Perspectives on Politics 13: (2015): 1017-1029 (with Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady).
“Images of an Unbiased Interest System,” Journal of European Public Policy 22: (2015), 1212-1231 (with David Lowery, Frank R. Baumgartner, Joost Berkhout, Jeffrey M. Berry, Darren Halpin, Marie Hojnakci, Heike Klüver, Beate Kohler-Koch, and Jeremy Richardson).
“Louder Chorus – Same Accent: The Representation of Interests in Pressure Politics” in David Lowery, Darren R. Halpin, and Virginia Gray, eds., The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities: Assessments and Agendas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) (with Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady).
“Political Mobility and Political Reproduction from Generation to Generation,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 657 (2015): 149-173 (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba).
“How Membership Associations Change the Balance of Representation in Washington (And How They Don’t)” in Matt Grossmann, ed., New Directions in Interest Group Politics (New York: Routledge, 2013) (with Philip Edward Jones).
“Counting the Voices in the Heavenly Chorus: Pressure Participants In Washington Politics” in Darren Halpin and Grant Jordan, eds., Quantifying Group Populations (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2012).
“Who Speaks?: Citizen Political Voice on the Internet Commons,” Daedalus 140 (2011): 121-139 (with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady).
“Public Interest Groups” in Burdett A. Loomis, ed., CQ Press Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011).
“Weapon of the Strong?: Participatory Inequality and the Internet,” Perspectives on Politics 8 (2010): 487-510 (with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady).
“Creative Participation: Concluding Thoughts from the Land of the Boston Tea Party,” in Michele Micheletti and Andrew McFarland, eds., Creative Participation: Responsibility-taking in the Political World (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2010).
“Political Participation” International Encyclopedia of Political Science
5 (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010).
“Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?: The Shape of the Organized Interest System,” in Jeffrey Berry, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), chap. 22.
"Political Voice in an Age of Inequality," in Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell, eds., America at Risk: Threats to Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009]), chap. 7 (with Traci Burch).
“Inequalities of Political Voice” in Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, eds., Inequality and American Democracy (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005) (with Benjamin I. Page, Sidney Verba, and Morris Fiorina).
“Family Ties: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Participation” in Alan Zuckerman, ed., The Social Logic of Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005) (with Sidney Verba and Nancy Burns).
“Political Equality: What Do We Know about It?” in Kathryn Neckerman, ed., Social Inequality (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004)(with Sidney Verba and Henry Brady).
“Unequal at the Starting Line: Creating Participatory Inequalities across Generations and Among Groups,” American Sociologist 34 (2003), 45-69 (with Sidney Verba and Nancy Burns).
“Vox Populi: Public Opinion and the Democratic Dilemma,” Brookings Review, Summer, 2003, pp. 4-7.
“Citizen Participation in America: What Do We Know? Why Do We Care?” in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., The State of the Discipline (New York: WW Norton, 2002).
“Who Bowls?: The (Un)Changing Stratification of Participation,” in Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox, eds., Understanding Public Opinion (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).
“Rational Action and Political Activity,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (2000), 243-268, (with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady).
“Civic Participation and the Equality Problem,” in Theda Skocpol and Morris Fiorina, eds., Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1999) pp. 427-460 (with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady).
6 “Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists,” American Political Science Review 93 (1999): 153- 168 (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba).
“What Happened at Work Today?: A Multi-Stage Model of Gender, Employment, and Political Participation,” Journal of Politics 61 (1999): 29-54 (with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba).
“Why Can’t They Be Like We Were?: Understanding the Generation Gap in Civic Activity,” Report to the Pew Charitable Trust (with Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady, and Jennifer Erkulwater).
"Knowing and Caring about Politics: Gender and Political Engagement," Journal of Politics 59 (1997), 1051-1072 (with Sidney Verba and Nancy Burns).
“The Big Tilt: Participatory Inequality in America,” The American Prospect, May /June, 1997, pp. 74-80.
“The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation,” American Political Science Review 91 (1997), 373-389 (with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba).
"Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation," in Classifying by Race, ed. Paul E.Peterson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) (with Sidney Verba and Henry Brady).
"Gender and Citizen Activity: Is There a Different Voice?" American Journal of Political Science 39 (1995), 267-293 (with Nancy Burns, Sidney Verba, and Jesse Donahue). Reprinted in Gregory M. Scott, Political Science: Foundations for a Fifth Millennium (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997).
"Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Participation," American Political Science Review 89 (1995), 271-294 (with Henry Brady and Sidney Verba).
"Participation’s Not a Paradox: The View from American Activists," British Journal of Political Science 25 (1995), 1-36 (with Sidney Verba and Henry Brady).
"Gender and the Pathways to Participation: The Role of Resources," Journal of Politics 56 (1994), 963-90 (with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba).
"Voluntary Organizations in Politics: Who Gets Involved?" in Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation, ed. by William Crotty, Mildred A. Schwartz, and John C. Green (Lanham, MD: Ray C. Bliss Institute and University Press of America, 1994), pp. 68-87.
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"Race, Ethnicity, and Political Resources: Participation in the United States," British Journal of Political Science 23 (Fall, 1993) 453-497 (with Sidney Verba, Henry Brady, and Norman H. Nie).
"Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say?" American Political Science Review 87 (June, 1993), 303-319 (with Sidney Verba, Henry Brady, and Norman H. Nie).
"Representing Women in Washington: Sisterhood and Pressure Politics" in Women, Politics, and Change, ed. by Patricia Gurin and Louise Tilly (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990), pp. 339-382.
"Congress and Organized Interests" in Congressional Politics, ed. by Chris Deering (Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1988), pp. 197-219 (with John Tierney).
"Sending Them a Message - Getting a Reply: Presidential Elections and Democratic Accountability in America" in Elections in America, ed. by Kay L. Schlozman (Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin, 1987) (with Sidney Verba). Reprinted in Richard M. Valelly, ed., Princeton Readings in American Politics Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).
"Candidate Gender and Congressional Campaign Receipts," Journal of Politics 48 (February, 1986), 30-50 (with Carole Uhlaner).
"What Accent the Heavenly Chorus?: Political Equality and the American Pressure System," Journal of Politics 46 (November, 1984), 1006-1032. Reprinted in Randall B. Ripley and Elliot E. Slotnick, eds., Readings in American Government and Politics (New York: McGraw Hill, 1989); Ralph Young et al., eds., Introducing Government (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993); Joshua Cohen and Archon Fung, eds., Constitution, Democracy and State Power (Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995); David Arter, ed., The International Library of Political and Comparative Government-Vol. II (Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1997); Cal Jillson and David Brian Robertson, eds., Perspectives on American Government (New York and London: Routledge, 2010).
"More of the Same: Washington Pressure Group Activity in a Decade of Change," Journal of Politics 45 (May, 1983), 351-377 (with John T. Tierney) Reprinted in Randall B. Ripley and Elliot Slotnick, eds., Readings in American Government and Politics (NY: McGraw Hill, 1989).
"The New Unemployment--Does It Hurt?" Public Policy 26 (Summer, 1978), 333-358 (with Sidney Verba).
"Women and Unemployment" in Women: A Feminist Perspective, ed. by Jo Freeman (Palo Alto: Mayfield Press, 1978).
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"Unemployment, Class Consciousness, and Radical Politics: What Didn't Happen in the Thirties," Journal of Politics 39 (May, 1977), 291-323 (with Sidney Verba).
"Hard Hats and Ethnics Have Taken a Bum Rap," Ethnicity 4 (1977), 71- 89.
“Coping with the American Dream,” Politics and Society 6 (1976), 241- 263.
Book Reviews and Essays:
Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage reviewed in Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 24 (November, 2020), 364-365.
“In Memoriam: Sidney Verba,” PS 52 (July, 2019), 557-563 (with Henry E. Brady).
“Political Voice in the New American Gilded Age,” Brennan Center for Justice, August, 2018 (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba) https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/political-voice-new-american- gilded-age/.
“Unequal Voice in the New American Gilded Age,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba) https://items.ssrc.org/?s=schlozman/.
“Unbalanced: Seven Notes on Our Gilded Age,” Boston College Magazine, Summer 2018, pp. 28-31 (with Henry E. Brady and Sidney Verba).
“Assigned Reading: Rights in Conflict,” Boston College Magazine, Summer 2017, pp. 12-13.
“Donald Trump and the Politics of Anxiety and Resentment,” (review essay on Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, Katherine J. Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker, and Michael Tesler, Post-Racial or Most-Racial: Race and Politics in the Obama Era), Political Psychology 38 (2017): 1121-1124 (with Jennifer L. Hochschild).
“Our Voices Are Not All Equal,” Salon, April 23, 2016 (with Henry Brady) http://www.salon.com/2016/04/23/our_voices_are_not_all_equal_inequ ality_your_vote_and_some_surprising_common_ground_between_donald_ trump_and_bernie_sanders_supporters/.
“A Seat for Everyone at the Table,” The Hill, February 26, 2016 (with
9 Henry Brady) at http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy- budget/270788-a-seat-for-everyone-at-the-table.
“If It Doesn’t Work, Maybe Someone Wants It That Way,” RegBlog: Penn Program on Regulation, January 7, 2016, at http://www.regblog.org/2016/01/07/schlozman-american-government- failure/.
Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation & Institutions, reviewed in Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy (November, 2015).
“Two Concerns about Ten Misconceptions,” Perspectives on Politics 11 (2013), 490-491.
“Let’s Think Again about All Those Washington Lobbyists,” Boston Review, July/August, 2012, p. 22.
“Interest Groups” in The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics, Joel Krieger, ed. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini, Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America, reviewed in Political Psychology (December, 2011).
“The Internet and Civic Engagement,” Pew Internet and American Life Project, August 2009, (with Aaron Smith, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady) found at: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/15--The- Internet-and-Civic-Engagement.aspx.
Andrew J. Perrin, Citizen Speak, reviewed in Political Psychology (December, 2007).
Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen, Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy, reviewed in American Journal of Sociology (September, 2007).
“Political Inequality,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed.; Farmington, MI: Macmillan/Thomson, 2007).
Brenda O’Neill and Elisabeth O’Neill Gidengil, eds., Gender and Social Capital, reviewed in Politics and Gender (2, 2006).
Andrea Louise Campbell, How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State, reviewed in Political Psychology (August, 2006).
Thomas Ambrosio, ed., Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly (Fall, 2003).
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Alice S. Rossi, ed., Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and Community, reviewed in American Journal of Sociology (November, 2002).
Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, eds., Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries?, reviewed in Political Psychology (June, 2002).
Patricia Heidotting Conley, Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly (Spring, 2002).
“Interest Groups” in The International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul Baltco, eds. (Amsterdam: Pergamon Press, 2001).
“Interest Groups” in The Oxford Companion to Political Science (2nd ed.; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Jeffrey M. Berry, The New Liberalism, reviewed in American Political Science Review 94 (March, 2000).
Michael Gross, Ethics and Activism, and Nathan Teske, Political Activists in America, reviewed in Journal of Politics 61 (February, 1999).
Grant Reeher, Narratives of Justice: Legislators Beliefs about Distributive Fairness, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 112 (Winter, 1997- 1998).
Douglas R. Imig, Poverty & Power, reviewed in American Political Science Review 90 (December, 1996).
Jennifer Hochschild, Facing up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 111 (Summer, 1996).
John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Robert H. Salisbury, The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making, reviewed in the American Political Science Review 88 (June, 1994).
Laura R. Woliver, From Outrage to Action: The Politics of Grassroots Dissent, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 108 (Winter, 1993-1994).
"Interest Groups" and "Public Interest Movements" in The Oxford Companion to Political Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Jack L. Walker, Jr., Mobilizing Interest Groups in America, reviewed in
11 American Political Science Review 86 (September, 1992).
"Common Cause" and "Equal Rights Amendment" in L. Sandy Maisel (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).
Karen Beckwith, Women and Political Participation, reviewed in American Political Science Review, 81 (December, 1987).
Robert Dahl, Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 98 (Summer, 1983).
M. Kent Jennings and Richard Niemi, Generations and Politics, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 97 (Winter, 1982-1983).
Robert S. Sigel and Marilyn B. Hoskin, The Political Involvement of Adolescents, reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 97 (Fall, 1982).
Claire Knoche Fulenwider, Feminism in American Politics, reviewed in Contemporary Sociology 10 (November, 1981).
"Gender and the Power Differential: How Much? How Come? Who Cares?" Harvard Educational Review 49 (November 1979), 554-556 (with Jane J. Mansbridge).
“A Presidential Nation” Harvard Journal on Legislation 13 (April, 1976), 320-331.
Professional Activities:
Member, Task Force on Electoral Assistance, 2020 American Political Science Association
Chair, Emerging Scholar Selection Committee, 2019 Political Organizations and Parties Section American Political Science Association
Chair, Eldersveld Award Selection Committee, 2017 Political Organizations and Parties Section American Political Science Association
Vice-chair, Executive Director Search Committee, 2012-2013 American Political Science Association
Chair, Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee, 2012 American Political Science Association
Nominating Committee, 2010-2011; Chair, 2010 American Political Science Association
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Selection Committee, Resident Fellows Program, 2009-2010 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Eldersveld Award Selection Committee, 2009 Political Organizations and Parties Section American Political Science Association
Advisory Board, 2005-2009 Campaign Finance Institute
Section Membership Panel, 2004-2005 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rowman and Littlefield Award Committee, 2005-2006 American Political Science Association
Task Force on Inequality and Democracy, 2003-2004 American Political Science Association
Chair, 2002-2004 Elections, Public Opinion, and Political Behavior Section American Political Science Association
Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee, Chair, 2001-2002 Midwest Political Science Association
Committee on Strategic Planning, 1999-2000 American Political Science Association
Secretary, 1998-1999 American Political Science Association
Award Committee, 1999 Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting
Centennial Campaign Executive Committee, 1997- American Political Science Association
Ethics Committee, Chair, 1994-1997 American Political Science Association
Executive Committee, 1993-1995 Political Organizations and Parties Organized Section American Political Science Association
Editorial Board, 1991-1995, 2012- American Political Science Review
13 Epstein and Walker Awards Committee, 1991-1992; (Chair) 1993-1994 Political Organizations and Parties Section
Editorial Board, 1987-1993 American Politics Quarterly
Editorial Board, 1982-1987; 1993-1997 American Journal of Political Science
Nominating Committee, 1989-1991 American Political Science Association
Chair, Schattschneider Award Committee, 1988-1989 American Political Science Association
Committee on Education, 1986-1989 American Political Science Association
Task Force on Pay Equity Research, 1985-1989 National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Chair, 1984-1989 Committee on Advanced Placement in Government and Politics College Board
Associate, 1988- Center for American Political Studies Harvard University
Research Associate, 1977-1987 Center for International Affairs Harvard University
Gladys Kammerer Award Committee, 1985 American Political Science Association
Program Committee, 1983 American Political Science Association
Mellon Fellow, 1980-1981 Cheever Center, Wellesley College
CLEP Committee on American Government, 1976-1978 Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
Teaching Fields:
Parties and the Electoral Process Pressure Politics: Organized Interests and American Democracy
14 Women and Politics Rights in Conflict Inequality and Politics
15 Other Activities:
President Menemsha Family Fund
Board of Overseers Brookline Education Foundation