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Today's demographic reality is a "majority-minority" America wherein racial and ethnic minorities comprise a growing share of the U.S. population and electorate, and are themselves becoming more diverse and representing more decisive votes. How America evolves as a society and a polity depends on whether and how these new Americans access and are accommodated by existing institutions. "The Future is Ours" offers a data-based examination of whether (and exactly how) minority citizens differ from members of the white majority - in political participation, voting preferences, policy opinions,...

In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the question: Does direct democracy harm representative democracy?"

In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the question: Does direct democracy harm representative democracy?"

Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the rules, and citizen engagement with politics can be renewed. Yet a look at the record of electoral reform reveals a string of disappointments. This book examines a variety of reforms, including campaign finance, direct democracy, legislative term limits, and changes to the electoral system itself. This study finds electoral reforms have limited, and in many cases, no effects. Despite reform advocates'...