Diversity in Democracy: Minority Representation in the United States

Book Overview

As the racial and ethnic minority populations of the United States grow past 30 percent, candidates cannot afford to ignore the minority vote. The studies collected in Diversity and Democracy show that political scientists, too, must fully recognize the significance of minority-representation studies for our understanding of the electoral process in general.

If anything has limited such inquiry in the past, it has been the tendency for researchers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923387
• ISBN13: 9780813923383
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher