Hayduk Democracy for All

Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-79136-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.

Zielgruppe

Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hayduk, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

I. Introduction

II. Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926

III. The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization

IV. The Case For Immigrant Voting Rights

V. Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago

VI. Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts

VII. The Future of Immigrant Voting

Works Cited

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Hayduk teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He has written about political participation, elections, social movements, immigration, and race. Hayduk has worked in government, consulted to several policy organizations and is co-founder of The Immigrant Voting Project (www.immigrantvoting.org).