The Future Is Ours
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The Future Is Ours

Minority Politics, Political Behavior, and the Multiracial Era of American Politics

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The Future Is Ours

Minority Politics, Political Behavior, and the Multiracial Era of American Politics

About this book

Today?s demographic reality is a "majority-minority" America wherein racial and ethnic minorities comprise a growing share of the U.S. population and electorate, and are themselves becoming more diverse and representing more decisive votes. How America evolves as a society and a polity depends on whether and how these new Americans access and are accommodated by existing institutions.

The Future is Ours offers a data-based examination of whether (and exactly how) minority citizens differ from members of the white majority—in political participation, voting preferences, policy opinions, orientations toward government, and legislative representation. Data analyses are presented in non-technical fashion, but throughout the authors attempt to engage issues of research design that expose students to the logics of social science inquiry.

Bowler and Segura argue that demography will, in fact, be destiny. The balance between the two parties is at a tipping point and the outcome depends on how minority Americans engage in politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. About the Authors
  6. Contents
  7. Tables, Figures, and Boxes
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Demography Is Destiny! Or … You Just Never Know …
  10. 2 Demography, Identity, and a Changing America: A Not-So-Simple Examination of Rapid Change
  11. 3 Electoral Competition and the Democratic Reliance on Minority Vote
  12. 4 Party Identification and Two-Party Vote among Minority Citizens
  13. 5 The Political Distinctiveness of American Minorities
  14. 6 Taking Part in Politics: The Essence of Democracy
  15. 7 Participation beyond Voting and Minority Politics
  16. 8 Representation: Representatives, Elections, and Electoral Reform
  17. 9 Core Orientations to the Political System
  18. 10 Values and Beliefs: Is There a “Culture War” Across Racial and Ethnic Groups?
  19. 11 Immigration and Its Discontents
  20. 12 Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
  21. 13 “We Have Seen the Future, and the Future Is Ours”
  22. References
  23. Notes
  24. Index