Why Americans don't join the party
Subtitle: race, immigration, and the failure (of political parties) to engage the electorate
By: Zoltan L. Hajnal, Taeku Lee
Contributors: Lee, Taeku
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780691148786; 9780691148793
Subjects: Politics and government; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Democratic Party (U.S.); Allegiance; Identity politics; Political alienation; Membership; Emigration and immigration; Political aspects; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Party identification: the historical and ontological origins of a concept; title: Identity, ideology, information, and the dimensionality of nonpartisanship; title: Leaving the mule behind: independents and African American partisanship; title: What does it mean to be a partisan?; title: The sequential logic of Latino and Asian American partisanship; title: Beyond the middle: ambivalence, extremism, and white nonpartisans; title: The electoral implications of nonpartisanship; title: Conclusion.