The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America

ISBN-13: 9780415876209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 220 str.

David F. Ericson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.