Democracy for All

Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-95072-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hayduk, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikberatung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

I. Introduction

II. Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926

III. The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization

IV. The Case For Immigrant Voting Rights

V. Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago

VI. Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts

VII. The Future of Immigrant Voting

Works Cited

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hayduk, Ron