The Urban Voter: Group Conflict and Mayoral Voting Behavior in American Cities

by Karen M. Kaufmann

Karen Kaufmann's groundbreaking study shows that perceptions of interracial conflict can cause voters in local elections to focus on race, rather than party attachments or political ideologies. Using public opinion data to examine mayoral elections in New York and Los Angeles over the past 35 years, Kaufmann develops a contextual theory of local voting behavior that accounts for the Republican victories of the 1990s in these overwhelmingly Democratic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472068571
• ISBN13: 9780472068579
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"