Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics In The 1992 Elections

by de la Garza,Rodolfo O.

• ISBN13: 9780813330129
• ISBN10: 0813330122
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-02-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ethnic Ironiesdescribes the role of Latino electorates in national- and state-level politics during the 1992 elections. The book examines Latino politics from the top downlooking at the efforts of candidates and campaigns to speak to Latino concerns and to mobilize Latino votersand from the bottom upreviewing the efforts of Latinos to win electoral office and to influence electoral outcomes.Chronicling the campaigns and uncovering patterns of Latino influence, the core of the book consists of eight state-level analyses by experts who have observed firsthand the states with the most sizable Latino electorates. An overview chapter synthesizes and integrates the findings of these case studies, placing them in national perspective.Ethnic Ironiesis the third in a series of studies on Latino electoral behavior published by Westview Press, includingFrom Rhetoric to Reality: Latino Politics in the 1988 ElectionsandBarrio Ballots: Latino Politics in the 1990 Elections.This latest study also serves as a companion volume toLatino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American PoliticsandNew Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants.

Author Biography

Louis DeSipio is assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate as well as the author and editor of a five-volume series on Latino political values, attitudes, and behaviors published by WestviewPress. Rodolfo O. de la Garza is Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as vice president and director of research at the Tom225s Rivera Policy Institute. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992 Elections (WestviewPress 1996) and Bridging the Border: Transforming Mexico-U.S. Relations. Louis DeSipio is assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate as well as the author and editor of a five-volume series on Latino political values, attitudes, and behaviors published by WestviewPress. Rodolfo O. de la Garza is Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as vice president and director of research at the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992 Elections (WestviewPress 1996) and Bridging the Border: Transforming Mexico-U.S. Relations.