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  • The Politics of Belonging

    Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

    by Natalie Masuoka, Jane Junn ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political issues.Using an impressive array of evidence from national surveys, The Politics of Belonging illuminates patterns of public opinion on immigration and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fight the Tower

    Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

    by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Wei Ming Dariotis, Shirley Hune, W P, Eliza Noh, Jane Junn, Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee0, Jing Mai1, Shannon Deloso2, Kaozong N. Mouavangsou3, Cindy Nhi Huynh4, Akiko Takeyama5, Rani Neutill6, Brett J. Esaki7, Grace J. Yoo8, Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano9, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales0, Genevieve Erin O’Brien1, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez2 ...
    Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Women Voters

    Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American Elections

    by Jane Junn, Natalie Masuoka ...
    Series series Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
    Women Voters documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. The Element contributes to a better understanding of partisan candidate choice in US presidential elections. First, women are diverse and politically heterogenous, where white women are more likely to vote Republican and women of color are majority Democratic voters. Second, due to the unequal ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The Political Power of Protest

    Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy

    by Daniel Q. Gillion ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Gillion demonstrates the direct influence that political protest behavior has on Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court, illustrating that protest is a form of democratic responsiveness that government officials have used, and continue to draw on, to implement federal policies. Focusing on racial and ethnic minority concerns, this book shows that the context of political protest has served ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Imperative of Integration

    by Elizabeth Anderson ...
    A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about what type of democracy works best.Praise for the previous edition:"Magnificent. . . . The best ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

    The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

    by Lee Drutman ...
    American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy. Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • White Logic, White Methods

    Racism and Methodology

    Edited by Tukufu Zuberi, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    In this collection of essays, the authors examine how racial considerations have affected the way social science is conducted; how issues are framed, and data is analyzed. With an assemblage of leading scholars, White Logic, White Methods explores the possibilities and necessary dethroning of current social research practices, and demands a complete overhaul of current methods, towards ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

    Why Americans Vote the Way They Do

    by Andrew Gelman ...
    "Full of interesting arguments and insights that will turn many deep-seated beliefs about American politics on their head." —Stefan Fergus, Civilian ReaderOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotype ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Demographic Illusion

    Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

    by Richard Alba ...
    Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s futureAmericans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Asymmetric Politics

    Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats

    by Matt Grossmann, David A. Hopkins ...
    Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do Democratic politicians propose an array of different policies to match the diversity of their supporters, only to become mired in stark demographic divisions over issue priorities? In short, why do the two parties act so ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

    Ideological Innocence in the American Public

    by Donald R. Kinder, Nathan P. Kalmoe ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus