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Activism
African Americans
Americans
Anecdotal evidence
Author_Jan E. Leighley
Ballot
Calculation
Career
Case study
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Centrality
Ceteris paribus
Christian right
Citizenship
Civic engagement
Competitiveness
Cost-benefit analysis
Demography
Disadvantage
Dummy variable (statistics)
Election
Electoral district
Elite
Empowerment
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Estimation
Ethnic group
Ethnic studies
Fundraising
Ideology
Income
Institution
Linear regression
Local community
Local election
Major party
Minority group
Minority leader
Multiculturalism
Nationality
Of Education
One-Tailed Test
Opinion poll
Participation (decision making)
Party chair
Party identification
Party leader
Party system
Percentage
Political campaign
Political organization
Political party
Politician
Politics
Probability
Protest
Racial politics
Racial segregation
Racism
Republican Party (United States)
Requirement
Sampling (statistics)
Social status
Socioeconomic status
Standard error
Statistical significance
Structuring
Third Party System
Urban politics
Voter registration
Voter turnout
Voting
ZIP code
Product details
- ISBN 9780691086712
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 that this diversity 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. By integrating class-based factors with racial and ethnic factors, Jan Leighley shows what motivates African-Americans, Latinos, and Anglos to mobilize and participate in politics. Drawing on national survey data and on interviews with party and elected officials in Texas, she develops a 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 minorities' decisions to participate, but that different features of those environments are important for different groups. Race and ethnicity structure participation more than 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.
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.
