Miriam Jiménez

Inventive Politicians and Ethnic Ascent in American Politics

The Uphill Elections of Italians and Mexicans to the U.S. Congress

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.S. Congress. Jiménez utilizes a ground-breaking comparative dataset of elected members of Congress organized upon the basis of national origin, and then focuses her analysis on Italian-American and Mexican-American politicians. Her book demonstrates the need to reconsider several standard ideas of how minority representation occurs and deepens our understanding of the role that political institutions play in that process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781138100442
• ISBN-10: 1138100447
• Artikelnr.: 43152247

Autorenporträt

Miriam Jiménez is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Oswego. Her research focuses on political incorporation and ethnic ascent in the context of American electoral frameworks and institutions such as the U.S. Congress. She is an eager proponent of cross-field and interdisciplinary perspectives. Her research interests include American politics, immigration, and transnationalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Politicians, Institutions, and Change. 1. Uphill Struggles and
Inventive Politicians 2. Italians and Mexicans in the U.S.: A Brief
Historical Survey Part II. When Local Parties Ruled. 3. Big Machines and
Inventive Italians 4. Mexican Americans: Invisibility and Exception Part
III. National Standards-and More Parties 5. Italian-Americans: New Rules,
Challenges, and Change 6. Mexican Americans: New Rules and Old Problems
Part IV. Ethnic Ascent from a Micro Scale of Observation 7. Conclusion