Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

ISBN-13: 9780415950725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str.

Ronald Hayduk

Opis

Examining the politics of voting in the United States, this book shows how voting rights can empower minority groups. It presents arguments for and against non-citizen voting rights, and also examines contemporary political organisations and actors, who fought for and against campaigns to reinstate non-citizen voting.

Recenzje

"This is an immensely valuable and promising project...tackled in a serious and thorough way. This book has a chance to speak to a broad national audience in a clear and accessible manner." -- Jamin Raskin, author of Overruling Democracy
"Democracy for All is the most thoroughgoing exploration we have of non-citizen voting in the United States, past and present. The issues raised by Hayduk's book - particularly at a time of high rates of immigration - ought to inform public debate in communities across the nation." -- Alexander Keyssar, Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard University, and author of The Right to Vote
"This passionately argued and thoroughly documented work is the best single study of whether to grant electoral rights to immigrant non-citizens. Hayduk carefully, clearly, and compellingly dissects the past, present, and future of one of our era's most important civil rights challenges." -- John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, City University Graduate Center
"Millions of long-term non-citizen residents abide in the United States without any formal representation in its democratic political system. Hayduk provides a thorough, and much-needed brief outlining the history, contemporary status, and arguments for (and against) non-citizen voting in the U.S. An excellent source for an important question in American politics today." -- Michael Jones-Correa, Department of Government, Cornell University

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

I. Introduction


II. Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926


III. The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization


IV. The Case For Immigrant Voting Rights


V. Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago


VI. Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts


VII. The Future of Immigrant Voting


Works Cited

Notes

Index

O autorze

Ron Hayduk teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He has written about political participation, elections, social movements, immigration, and race. Hayduk has worked in government, consulted to several policy organizations and is co-founder of The Immigrant Voting Project (www.immigrantvoting.org).