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Minority Report

Evaluating Political Equality in America

By: John D. Griffin, Brian Newman

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Hardcover | 1 June 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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 the preferences of whites as a group and as individuals better than the preferences of either minority group, even after accounting for income disparities. This is far from the whole story, though, and the authors' multifaceted approach illustrates the surprising degree to which group population size, an issue's level of importance, the race or ethnicity of an office holder, and electoral turnout can affect how well government action reflects the views of each person or group. Sure to be controversial, "Minority Report "ultimately goes beyond statistical analyses to address the root question of what equal representation really means.

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"The most comprehensive treatment to date of racial representation in Congress, this book makes novel contributions by focusing on the relative - in addition to the absolute - representation of minority interests and by using several measures of racial equality in the Senate as well as the House." - David Canon, author of Race, Redistricting, and Representation"

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Structure & Processes Political Structures & Democracy Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Political Science & Theory Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Political Control & Freedoms

Human Rights Civil Rights & Citizenship Family & Health Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality

List of Figures
List of Tables
Thinking About Political Inequality	p. 1
Minority Groups and Political Equality in America	p. 3
Which Groups Govern?	p. 11
Differences in Representation	p. 37
Differences in Political Preferences and Priorities	p. 39
Differences in Policy Representation	p. 59
Differences in Legislative Representation	p. 77
Reducing Political Inequality	p. 117
Pluralism and Political Representation	p. 119
Descriptive Representation and Political Equality	p. 143
The Rewards of Voting	p. 173
Conclusion: The Future of Political (In)equality	p. 195
References	p. 209
Index	p. 221
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