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Representation of Minority Groups in the U.S. aims to assess the changes that have occurred with respect to the descriptive and substantive representation of women, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians in the U.S. political system from 1965 to the present. Each institutionally oriented chapter provides the reader with detailed demographic and behavioral facts concerning minority groups in the political system. How these groups are represented is assessed through discussions of partisanship, ideology, policy impact, role orientations, leadership, committee assignment, bill co-sponsorship, and voting behavior.

Table of Contents

1 Preface
2 Acknowledgments
3 Minority Representation in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction
4 African American Representation in Congress, Then and Now
5 The Institutional Roles of Women Serving in Congress: 1960-2000
6 An Analysis of Descriptive and Substantive Latino Representation in Congress
7 The Representation of Asian Americans in the U.S. Political System
8 American Indian Representation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
9 Voters, Non-Voters and Minority Representation
10 The Effects of Redistricting on the Underrepresented
11 Black State Legislators: A Case Study of North Carolina and Maryland
12 A Wave of Change: Women in State and Local Governments
13 New Black Women in the Old White Confederacy: An Analyses of Occupational Status in State and Local Government
14 Representative Government and Affirmative Action in Mississippi: An Oxymoron in the Making?
15 Legislative Collaboration and Descriptive Representation
16 Representation of Minorities in the Next Century

Product details

Published 04 Jan 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 352
ISBN 9781572921641
Imprint Austin & Winfield Publishers
Dimensions 215 x 140 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Charles E. Menifield

Charles E. Menifield is a professor and the former…

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Adolfo Santos

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Okiyoshi Takeda

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Geoff Peterson

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Robert Duncan

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Jan E. Leighley

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Frank Julian

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Regina C. Gray

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Mfanya Tryman

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