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  • Contested Transformation

    Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America

    by Carol Hardy-Fanta, Pei-te Lien, Dianne Pinderhughes, Christine Marie Sierra ...
    Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership (GMCL) National Database and Survey, it provides a baseline portrait of Black, Latino, Asian American, and American Indian elected officials - the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Contesting the Last Frontier

    Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans

    by Pei-te Lien, Nicole Filler ...
    Women of color, including Asian Pacific American (APA) women, have made considerable inroads into elective office in the United States in recent years; in fact, their numbers have grown more rapidly than those of white women. Nonetheless, focusing only on success stories gives the false impression that racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are not barriers for APA candidates to public ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Asian Pacific American Politics

    Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi

    Edited by Andrew Aoki, Pei-te Lien ...
    Asian Pacific American Politics presents some of the most recent research on Asian American politics, including both quantitative and qualitative examinations of the role of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in some of today’s major political controversies.In the highly polarized politics of the United States in the early 21st century, non-Black racial minorities such as Asian Americans and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Political Participation of Asian Americans

    Voting Behavior in Southern California

    by Pei-te Lien ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Americans
    Despite the size and relative prosperity of the Asian American ethnic population, the participation of Asian Americans in electoral politics has been low. This study explores the relationship between ethnic identity and political participation on three levels-between the four major racial/ethnic groups of the American nation, inside the multi-ethnic Asian American population, and within a specific ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Politics of Asian Americans

    Diversity and Community

    by Pei-te Lien, M. Margaret Conway, Janelle Wong ...
    Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable by showcasing results of the 2000-01 Multi City Asian American Political Survey. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    by Jacob M. Grumbach ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • American Gridlock

    The Sources, Character, and Impact of Political Polarization

    Edited by James A. Thurber, Antoine Yoshinaka ...
    American Gridlock brings together the country's preeminent experts on the causes, characteristics, and consequences of partisan polarization in US politics and government, with each chapter presenting original scholarship and novel data. This book is the first to combine research on all facets of polarization, among the public (both voters and activists), in our federal institutions (Congress, the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    by Michael J. Prince ...
    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Has Democracy Failed Women?

    by Drude Dahlerup ...
    Why are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some argue that we are on the right track to full gender equality in politics, while others talk about women hitting the glass ceiling or being included in institutions with shrinking power, not least as a result of neo-liberalism.In this powerful essay, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Affluence and Influence

    Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

    by Martin Gilens ...
    Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and ... Read more

    $22.99 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