The Changing Racial Regime

by Holden,Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781560008149
• ISBN10: 1560008148
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, is to "lead to new information, insights, and findings" into the social and political status of African Americans. The volume is not exclusionist or narrow. It integrates essays that could stand alone, as they initially were written, according to the method and theory of the author in question. As presented here, however, they also lend themselves to a broader treatment of race and the political order. The present volume combines essays expressly focused on African Americans, Africa, and the African diaspora. At the same time, it contains essays about broad generic subjects such as budgeting and interest groups, written with no explicit racial relevance. Holden integrates these essays under the theme of the changing racial regime.
The integrating concept is the old word "regime," which political scientists have used in many situations before to define such more or less persistent, though not necessarily permanent, orders of precedence. If no significant benefits and no significant burdens could be forecast by knowledge of the social identity called race, then the regime could be seen as non-racial. In American experience, the regime was, at one time, purposeful and sustained white advantage. The "white race" and its preferential standing, was central to virtually all institutional practice - public and private. The significant contemporary question is the degree of change in the racial regime. Some proceed with the assumption that a large degree of change has occurred in the American political system. The view of other contributors is that the system still sustains racial stratification. In its very internal dialogue, this volume presents a panorama of current work by political scientists, African American and other, on the character of the American political system.
The Changing Racial Regime is an essential resource for political scientists, black studies specialists, and scholars and policy analysts of race relations in the United States.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction	p. 1
Slavery and the Platonic Origins of Anti-Democracy	p. 18
Abram Harris, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche: The Howard School of Thought on the Problem of Race	p. 36
Organizational Character and Interest Group Strategies	p. 57
Regimes, Party, and Federal Budgeting: Presidential Estimates, Appropriations, and Expenditures	p. 75
Ethics and Budgeting: Comment on an Integrity Model	p. 90
The Rehnquist Court's 1990 and 1991 Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Federalism and its Consequences for Black Americans	p. 93
Agenda and Roll-Call Responsiveness to Black Interests: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Alabama Senate	p. 117
Race, Abortion, and Judicial Retention: The Case of Florida Supreme Court Justice Leander Shaw	p. 133
Mayoral Politics Chicago Style: The Rise and Fall of a Multiethnic Coalition, 1983-1989	p. 152
Party Sorting at the Local Level in South Carolina	p. 181
Boston's Mandela Referendum: Urban Nationalism and Economic Dependence	p. 197
Minority Business Enterprise Set-Aside Programs, Disparity Fact-Finding Studies, and Racial Discrimination in State and Local Public Contracting in the Post-Croson Era	p. 215
Racial Formation in Zimbabwe	p. 241
Affirmative Action: The Quality of the Debate	p. 263
Mozambique's Descent into Hell	p. 270
Democracy in America and the Representation of African Americans	p. 276
Decision and Structure: U.S. Refugee Policy in the Mariel Crisis and The Paper Curtain: Employer Sanctions' Implementation, Impact, and Reform	p. 283
Political Liberalism	p. 287
Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability	p. 289
Researching the Presidency: Vital Questions, New Approaches	p. 291
The Promise and Paradox of Civil Service Reform	p. 293
Black Families: Interdisciplinary Perspectives	p. 296
Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House	p. 299
The Poverty of American Politics: A Theoretical Interpretation	p. 301
The Fragmental Metropolis: Political Fragmentation and Metropolitan Segregation	p. 303
America's Strategy in a Changing World	p. 306
Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective	p. 310
Editor's Postscript: Regime Issues and a Study Agenda	p. 313
Invitation to the Scholarly Community	p. 321
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