Oversight : : Representing the Interests of Blacks and Latinos in Congress / / Michael D. Minta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Minta, Michael D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 10 line illus. 29 tables.

Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and it is the first book on the subject to focus on congressional oversight rather than roll-call voting. In this important book, Michael Minta demonstrates...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Race, Ethnicity, and a Theory of Substantive Representation in Congressional Oversight
• 3. Congress, Minority Interests, and Federal Policymaking
• 4. Black and Brown Voices in Committee Deliberations on Civil Rights
• 5. Congressional Oversight and Social Welfare Policy
• 6. Conclusion
• Appendix A: Data and Methodology
• Appendix B: Coding Protocol for Congressional Hearings
• Appendix C: Racial/Ethnic Congressional Hearings Coded
• Appendix D: General Social Welfare Congressional Hearings Coded
• Appendix E: Likelihood of Intervention for Stronger Enforcement of Civil Rights Policies in the 103rd Congress (1993-1995), First Stage
• Appendix G: Likelihood of Intervention for Stronger Enforcement of Civil Rights Policies in the 107th Congress (2001-2003), First Stage
• Appendix H: Likelihood of Intervention for General Social Welfare Policies in the 103rd Congress (1993-1995), First Stage
• Appendix I: Likelihood of Intervention for General Social Welfare Policies in the 104th Congress (1995-1997), First Stage
• References
• Index