The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415876206 ISBN 13: 9780415876209

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as equal participants? Often, the critical issue is not whether a group is included but how it is included. Collectively, these essays elucidate a wide range of inclusion or exclusion: voting participation, representation in legislative assemblies, representation of group interests in processes of policy formation and implementation, and participation in discursive processes of policy framing.

Covering broad territory―from African Americans to Asian Americans, the transgendered to the disabled, and Latinos to Native Americans―this volume examines in depth the give and take between how policies shape political configuration and how politics shape policy. At a more fundamental level, Ericson and his contributors raise some traditional and some not-so-traditional issues about the nature of democratic politics in settings with a multitude of group identities.

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About the Author

David F. Ericson is a professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. His current research focuses on the centrality of slavery to the American experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415876206
• ISBN 13: 9780415876209
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Ericson David