Strength in Numbers?: The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities - Couverture rigide

Leighley, Jan E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691086702 ISBN 13 : 9780691086705

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2001

Synopsis

America's increasing racial and ethnic diversity is viewed by some as an opportunity to challenge and so reinforce the country's social fabric: by others, as a portent of alarming disunity. While everyone agrees it is markedly influencing political dynamics not only nationally, but often on the state and local levels, we know little about how racial and ethnic groups organize and participate in politics or how political elites try to mobilize them. This book tells us, Integrating class-based factors with racial and ethnic factors. Jan Leighley shows what motivates African-Americans. Latinos, and Angios to mobilize and participate in politics. Drawing on national survey data and on interviews with party and elected officials in Texas, she develops a more nuanced understanding of how class, race and ethnicity act as individual and contextual influences on elite mobilization and mass participation. Leighley examines whether the diverse theoretical approaches generally used to explain individual participation in politics are supported for the groups under consideration. She concludes that the political and social context influences racial and ethnic minotiries' decisions to participate, but that different features of those environments are important for different groups. Race and ethnicity structure participation more than what previous research suggests. Casting new light on an issue at the crux of contemporary American politics, Strength in Numbers? will be welcomed by scholars and students of political science, African-American and Latino studies, urban politics, and social movements.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jan Leighley is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. She has written extensively on mass political behavior in the United States in leading political science journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691086702
• ISBN 13: 9780691086705
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible