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Why Americans Don't Join the Party : Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate /

Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters. Examining partisan attachments across the four primary racial groups in the United States, this book offers a sustained and systematic account o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hajnal, Zoltan, 1968-
Otros Autores: Lee, Taeku
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Party identification: the historical and ontological origins of a concept
  • Identity, ideology, information, and the dimensionality of nonpartisanship
  • Leaving the mule behind: independents and African American partisanship
  • What does it mean to be a partisan?
  • The sequential logic of Latino and Asian American partisanship
  • Beyond the middle: ambivalence, extremism, and white nonpartisans
  • The electoral implications of nonpartisanship
  • Conclusion.