Ethnic ironies : Latino politics in the 1992 elections
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Ethnic ironies : Latino politics in the 1992 elections
Westview Press, 1996
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780813330129
Description
Ethnic Ironies describes the role of Latino electorates in national- and state-level politics during the 1992 elections. The book examines Latino politics from the top down?looking at the efforts of candidates and campaigns to speak to Latino concerns and to mobilize Latino voters?and from the bottom up?reviewing 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 Ironies is the third in a series of studies on Latino electoral behavior published by Westview Press, including From Rhetoric to Reality: Latino Politics in the 1988 Elections and Barrio Ballots: Latino Politics in the 1990 Elections. This latest study also serves as a companion volume to Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics and New Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants.
Table of Contents
Foreword -- National Overview -- Latinos and the 1992 Elections: A National Perspective -- The Old Reliables: Mexican Americans in Small Western States -- Conventional Politics Under Unusual Circumstances: Latinos and the 1992 Election in New Mexico -- An Essential Vote: Latinos and the 1992 Elections in Colorado -- Promise and Missed Opportunity: The 1992 Latino Vote in Arizona -- The Must-Wins: Key States with Large Long-Term Latino Electorates -- Unrealized Expectations: Latinos and the 1992 Elections in Texas -- Theory, Reality, and Perpetual Potential: Latinos in the 1992 California Elections -- The New Kids on the Block: Key States with New and Potentially Influential Latino Electorates -- Leverage Without Influence: Illinois Latino Politics in 1992 -- The Conservative Enclave Revisited: Cuban Americans in Florida -- Puerto Ricans in Postliberal New York: The 1992 Presidential Election
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ISBN 9780813389103
Description
Describing the role of Latino electorates in national- and state-level politics during the 1992 elections, this book examines Latino politics from the top down, looking at the efforts of candidates and campaigns to speak to Latino concerns and to mobilize Latino voters, and from the bottom up, reviewing the efforts of Latinos to win electoral office and to influence electoral outcomes. The core of the book consists of eight state-level analyses and a chapter that synthesizes and integrates the findings of these case studies.
Table of Contents
- Left at the altar - Latinos in the 1992 elections, Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis DeSipio
- promise and missed opportunity - the 1992 Latino vote in Arizona, Manuel Avalos
- theory, reality and perpetual potential - Latinos in the 1992 Californian election, Fernando Guerra and Luis Fraga
- an essential vote - Latinos and the 1992 elections in Colorado, Rodney Hero
- the conservative enclave revisited - Cuban Americans in Florida, Dario Moreno and Christopher L. Warren
- leverage without influence - Illinois Latino politics in 1992, Roberto Rey
- conventional politics under unusual circumstances - Latinos and the 1992 election in New Mexico, F. Chris Garcia
- Puerto Ricans in post-liberal New York - the 1992 presidential election, Angelo Falcon
- unrealized expectations - Latinos and the 1992 elections in Texas, Valerie Martinez.
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