Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America

by John D. Griffin

Book Overview

Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. One of the first books to compare the representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226308685
• ISBN13: 9780226308685
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"