"Not only does this provocative book promise to be a significant contribution to political science, but it has the potential to be so in other social sciences as well as in the broader world of political philosophy and political thought."--R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology, author of "Hard Choices, Easy Answers"

"Well-organized and well-written, this provocative book reflects the authors' now familiar virtues: careful but informally described expositions of their reasoning, imaginative experimental designs embedded within conventional surveys to test alternative hypotheses, and a strong but appropriately modulated argument that challenges much conventional wisdom in the field."--Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University, author of "Facing Up to the American Dream"