DOI: 10.3886/e100391v1
title: The Unheavenly Chorus (2012)—Replication Archive

description: This archive provides the necessary syntax and data files to
replicate findings in the 2012 book, “The Unheavenly Chorus:  Unequal Political Voice and the Broken
Promise of American Democracy,” by Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and
Henry E. Brady. Chapters 1, 5, 7, 6, 8, 9, 15, and 16 of “The Unheavenly
Chorus” include findings generated from the data sources listed below. For each
of these chapters, the archive includes SPSS syntax with step-by-step
instructions for replicating findings. In most cases, it requires downloading
original data from the sources noted:

 

<br>1960
Civic Culture Study (persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07201.v2) 

1967
Political Participation in America (persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07015.v1) 

1990
American Citizen Participation Study (persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06635.v1) and
screener study (persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/E100384V1)2005
Citizen, Involvement, and Democracy Study (persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04607.v1) 

2004
Political Agendas and Citizen Engagement (PACES) Survey. The data file has been
defined by the book's authors and can be found in this book’s archive. 2008
Pew Internet and American Life Project (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/15--The-Internet-and-Civic-Engagement.aspx) American
National Election Study (ANES): time series surveys from presidential election
years 1952 to 2008 (http://www.electionstudies.org/) 

Roper
Social and Political Trends Data (1973-1994) from Roper Starch Worldwide and an
updated Roper file (1973-2002).The cumulative data file has already been
defined by the book's authors and can be found in this book’s archive. 

 

This replication archive includes the following folders and
files:<br><br>+ ANES:
This folder includes SPSS syntax files corresponding to American National
Election Study surveys from each presidential election year between 1952 and
2008. It also includes three instructional syntax files. Open “ANES_Step1.sps”
and follow the instruction from there to create a cumulative ANES data file. <br><br>+ Chapter-syntax-files: This folder includes the following SPSS syntax files, which contain the necessary instructions to replicate findings in chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, and 16.<br>_Ch1_Intro.sps_Ch5_Unequal_Voice.sps_Ch6_Persistence_UnequalVoice.sps_Ch7_Unequal_Starting.sps_Ch8_Life_Cycle.sps_Ch9_Perspectives.sps_Ch15_Recruitment.sps_Ch16_Weapon_of_Strong.sps+ Citizen-Participation: This folder includes the following SPSS syntax file, which contains the necessary instructions for linking the Citizen Participation Screener Survey to the follow-up face-to-face Citizen Participation interviews. <br>CitPart_Setup.sps+ PACES.sav:
This is the PACES data file defined by the book’s authors. <br><br>+ Roper.sav:
This is the cumulative Roper SPSS data file defined by the book’s authors. <br><br>+ TUC
Introduction.docx<br><br>About “The Unheavenly
Chorus”:

<br>“The Unheavenly Chorus” looks at the political participation
of individual citizens alongside the political advocacy of thousands of
organized interests—membership associations such as unions, professional
associations, trade associations, and citizens groups, as well as organizations
like corporations, hospitals, and universities. Drawing on numerous in-depth
surveys of members of the public as well as the largest database of interest
organizations ever created—representing more than thirty-five thousand
organizations over a twenty-five-year period—this book conclusively
demonstrates that American democracy is marred by deeply ingrained and
persistent class-based political inequality. The well educated and affluent are
active in many ways to make their voices heard, while the less advantaged are
not. This book reveals how the political voices of organized interests are even
less representative than those of individuals, how political advantage is
handed down across generations, how recruitment to political activity
perpetuates and exaggerates existing biases, how political voice on the
Internet replicates these inequalities—and more.<br>
description: Adults age 18 and older in the United States