The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion

Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-87620-9 (ISBN)

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Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as equal participants? Often, the critical issue is not whether a group is included but how it is included. Collectively, these essays elucidate a wide range of inclusion or exclusion: voting participation, representation in legislative assemblies, representation of group interests in processes of policy formation and implementation, and participation in discursive processes of policy framing.

Covering broad territory—from African Americans to Asian Americans, the transgendered to the disabled, and Latinos to Native Americans—this volume examines in depth the give and take between how policies shape political configuration and how politics shape policy. At a more fundamental level, Ericson and his contributors raise some traditional and some not-so-traditional issues about the nature of democratic politics in settings with a multitude of group identities.

David F. Ericson is a professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. His current research focuses on the centrality of slavery to the American experience.

1. Introduction David F. Ericson Part 1: Politics of Inclusion 2. Minimal Political Inclusion of Minorities at Risk: The Case of the Americas, 1870-2000 Victor Asal 3. Race, Nativity, and the Political Participation of Asian and Other Americans Pei-te Lien 4. The Home Styles of California Latino Representatives: Policy, Constituency, and Symbolic Representation Sally Friedman and Shannon Scotece 5. Puerto Rican Politics in New York City During the 1960s: Structural Ideation, Contingency, and Power José E. Cruz 6. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Citizenship Kathleen Sullivan and Patricia Strach Part 2: Politics of Exclusion 7. The Micro-Politics of Immigration: Local Government Policies of Inclusion and Exclusion Nadia Rubaii-Barrett 8. Outside the Binary: Transgendered Politics on a Global Stage Jenna Basiliere 9. Politics and the Disabled Body: Diverse Thoughts about Human Diversity William Roth 10. The Conservative Attack on Affirmative Action: Toward a Legal Genealogy of Color Blindness Julie Novkov

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.1.2011
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-415-87620-6 / 0415876206
ISBN-13	978-0-415-87620-9 / 9780415876209
Zustand	Neuware