African Americans - Politics and Government - History, Public Opinion - Ethnic & Religious, Public Opinion - United States, African Americans - Law, Politics, & Government
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Overview
"Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take up the question of representation from both sides of the constituent-representative relationship." The first half of the book examines whether black members of the U.S. House legislate and represent their constituents differently than white members do. Representation is broadly conceptualized to include not only legislators' roll call voting behavior and bill sponsorship, but also the symbolic acts in which they engage. The second half looks at the issue of representation from the perspective of ordinary African Americans based on a landmark national survey.Editorials
Journal of African American History -
A major contribution to the field of Congressional Studies and black politics.Choice
A thorough, thoughtful, and sophisticated discussion of the evidence. . . . [Tate] has combined theory, hard data, and real-world politics to produce a concise and interesting work on an important issue. This scholarly yet very readable book is a must-read for students of Congress or minority group politics.Journal of African American History
A major contribution to the field of Congressional Studies and black politics.— Lewis A. Randolph
Book Details
Published
January 17, 2003
Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780691091556