Unequal struggle
Subtitle: class, gender, race, and power in the U.S. Congress
By: John C. Berg.
Series: Interventions; Interventions--theory and contemporary politics.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: United States. Congress.; Pressure groups -- United States.; Lobbying -- United States.; Political participation -- United States.; Capitalism -- United States.
Description: The United States combines formal political equality with concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. Why, then, do the majority not use their votes to change this state of affairs? In this book, John C. Berg argues that the structure of the capitalist economy constrains progressive congressional action.

Asserting that neither pluralism nor institutionalism adequately explains congressional outcomes, he offers an alternative Marxist analysis that recognizes how political struggle exists within limits posed by the need to maintain capitalist prosperity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and index.