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...Griffin M. Petty; Dustin Magilligan; Mandi Bates Bailey Abstract This research investigates why racial and ethnic minority group members would elect to vote for Donald Trump, a president/candidate that has often castigated and maligned minorities through the use of racist, nativist, and xenophobic...

...Gerard Huiskamp Abstract This essay provides a framework for understanding the implications of the Bush administration’s War on Terror, through an analysis of Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 futuristic film, Minority Report. In brief, the film explores the trade-offs between security and freedom, overlaid...

...John Amoateng © 1989 Caucus for a New Political Science 1989 John Amoateng Black Germans The Best Hidden Minority in Germany John Amoateng, a member of the Black German Iniative, and himself a representative of the fourth generation of one of Western Europe's unknown minorities, the Afro...

... an integral feature of the war effort. This broadened focus is crucial. Since the minor political necessarily appears upon this terrain to be that which is dangerous, and yet that which resists the strategic political will of Liberal rationality, it will be concluded that one of the Zapatistas’ most...

... of neoliberal reason is manifesting as a new mechanism for policing public discourse and space that works to the detriment of racial and ethnic minorities seeking transformative change. © 2019 Caucus for a New Political Science 2019 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2019, VOL. 41, NO.4, 514-528 httpsdoLorg/l 0.1 080...

... divide and the public’s increased awareness of and attention to the anti-democratic features of our political system are pushing us closer to a political precipice as a minority of Americans seek to maximize their power at the expense of an increasingly frustrated majority. This is problematic...

... in ways that politically disenfranchise working class people of color in order to institutionalize white minority rule. We explore the nature of this political project and how more conventional rightwing actors dovetail with grassroots extremism by examining both historical and contemporary cases. We show...

...? Were they traditional “Southern Strategy” Republicans? Were they white nationalists? While I find evidence that negative attitudes toward Hispanic-Americans, Muslim-Americans, and African Americans strongly predict favorability to Trump, I also find that hostile attitudes toward minority groups...

... the voting rights of minorities and the poor; (2) the take down of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN); and (3) the launch of a Red scare and witch hunt by the pseudo-discovery of what the Right calls the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” an alleged leftwing blueprint for destroying...

...Saladdin Ahmed Abstract In the absence of anti-fascist public education and debates, the marginalized majority, minority groups, and their political allies will continue to be brutalized in the region. Problematizing exclusionary politics is essential for recognizing the ongoing democratic...

... politics or if politics affects religion. My contributions to the literature on race and politics include finding that religiosity has significant direct and indirect effects on attitudes toward racial minorities. I find that 10% of the negative effect on attitudes toward African Americans and 30...

... against Bahamians of all races, colors and creeds who opposed them. The PLP had won power in 1967 from a White minority controlled party called the United Bahamian Party (UBP), which was the political instrument of this racial group that controlled the Black majority for nearly 300 years. After initially...

... some Tea Party activists of color have surprisingly circumvented contemporary affective norms that usually render racial minorities’ public anger politically suspect. The article concludes with a discussion of the democratic implications of an agonistic approach to anger for democratic theory...

... in democratic India, by Amitra Basu, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 357 pp., $35.99 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978- 1107461321 The protection of minority groups is traditionally associated with democracies, both in terms of political opportunities and physical integrity; extensive anti-minority...

... in rights granted ethnic minorities in the different countries of Europe, some according more legal rights than others (for example Holland and the Scandinavian countries). 3 4 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE Regardless of the possibility of citizenship for some ethnic minorities, the main problem for Western...

... SCIENCE grant' is a dirty word-it's a term of abuse official terminology now refers to 'ethnic minorities.' Similarly the term "integration" is considered a word of the 1960s evoking a one-way process of assimilation to the dominant culture. The debate in the UK is no longer posed in terms of "immigrants...

... of the regime is a substantial contradiction between two principles-civil and political rights for all and structural subordination of the minority to the majority."3 The contradiction between the democratic character and ethnic domination is manifested differently in the various realms of life. The state...

... contemporary debates on citizenship in India. The status of Muslims as a religious minority in India has been one of 1James Holston and Arjun Appadurai, "Cities and Citizenship," Public Culture, 8, no. 2 (1996): 187-204. 9402 Q. CONTRACTOR the central concerns in these debates. The Sachar Committee, a seven...

... for violation of noise ordinances, are subject to judicial review in a public court. In reality, the process of arrest itself amounts to a criminal sanction.11 Many minor offenses, especially traffic offenses, are effectively punished at the sole discretion of the patrol officer. The traffic court 8 Eric M...

..., uncontrolled budget and debt, police brutality, poverty and inequality, poor health, decreasing minority life expectancy, hate crimes, illiteracy, and homelessness. Officials promote double standards, focusing on lower class minorities, drug users, and small dealers not upper class whites, money launderers...