Minority Report
Subtitle: Evaluating Political Equality in America (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226308685
Subjects: Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Ethnic Studies - General; Minorities; Political activity; Political participation; Representative government and representation; United States
Description: Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. One of the first books to compare the representation of both African Americans and Latinos to that of whites, Minority Report shows that congressional decisions and federal policy tend to mirror.