Why Americans Don't Join the Party : : Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate / / Zoltan L. Hajnal, Taeku Lee.

Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters. Examining partisan attachments across the four primary racial groups in the United States, this book offers the first sustained and systematic a...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 28 line illus. 30 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Party Identification: The Historical and Ontological Origins of a Concept
  • Chapter 3. Identity, Ideology, Information, and the Dimensionality of Nonpartisanship
  • Chapter 4. Leaving the Mule Behind: Independents and African American Partisanship
  • Chapter 5. What Does It Mean to Be a Partisan?
  • Chapter 6. The Sequential Logic of Latino and Asian American Partisanship
  • Chapter 7. Beyond the Middle: Ambivalence, Extremism, and White Nonpartisans
  • Chapter 8. The Electoral Implications of Nonpartisanship
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index