Black Faces in the Mirror

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

המשפט הראשון: TO THE ANCIENT GREEKS, democracy meant rule by the common people.

שנה

2002

שפה

English

הוצאה

Princeton University Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

224

ISBN

9780691091556

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