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11%OFFHeath Brown - Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change - 9781501704840 - V9781501704840
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Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change

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Description for Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 24, 2 black & white line drawings, 14 black & white tables, 8 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL1; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.

In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates, thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization, some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters, holding candidate forums, and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501704840
SKU
V9781501704840
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99-1

About Heath Brown
Heath Brown is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Pay-to-Play Politics: How Money Defines the American Democracy.

Reviews for Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change
In this timely, well-written book, Brown (John Jay) demonstrates the important role that nonprofit organizations play in shaping political behavior and immigrant integration.... In an era of contentious politics about immigration policy, readers will appreciate the author's treatment of the prospects for nonprofit organizations. Immigrants and Electoral Politics contributes to the theoretical and applied understanding of the ways organizations in ... Read more

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