ISBN:
9781317776932
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Asian Americans Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Lien, Pei-Te The Political Participation of Asian Americans : Voting Behavior in Southern California
DDC:
305.89507949
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- The Current Status: A Two-Tiered Picture -- The Puzzle and Some Macro Answers -- An Alternative Approach: Studying the Individuals -- 2. Theories of Ethnicity and Political Participation -- Definition of Key Concepts -- Ethnicity -- Asian American Panethnicity -- Political Participation -- Models of Minority Group Political Participation -- Group Culture Model -- Socioeconomic Model -- Demographic Model -- Socio-Psychological Model -- Legal Constraint Model -- 3. Methodology -- Studying Asian American Political Participation -- The Need for Survey Data -- Limitations of Secondary Survey Analysis -- Data -- Method -- Operational Definitions -- Political Participation -- (Pan)ethnicity-Function of Objective Background -- (Pan)ethnicity-Function of Subjective Factors -- The Structures of Panethnicity Across Racial/Ethnic Groups -- 4. The Political Participation of Asian Americans in a Multiethnic Setting: Results of the Southern California Survey -- Comparing Asian American to Other Racial/Ethnic Groups in the Aggregate -- Understanding Asian American Participation in a Comparative Perspective -- Sorting Out Correlates of Participation -- 5. Another Look at Asian American Ethnicity: Integration of Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles, 1992 -- Koreans in Los Angeles -- Preliminary Observations from Summary Statistics -- The Structure of Korean Immigrant Ethnicity -- Results from Multiple Regression Analysis -- 6. Does (Under-)Participation Matter? -- The Issues -- The Meaning of Participation Among Asian Americans -- The Meaning of Asian Participation in a Comparative Perspective -- 7. Conclusion -- Summary of Findings -- Political Parties -- Ethnic Community Organizations -- Ethnic Media -- Appendices
Abstract:
A: Voting and Registration in the Elections of November 1992 and 1994 -- B: A Comparison of Selected Characteristics of Asian Americans from Four Sources -- C: A Comparison of Selected Characteristics of Korean Americans in Los Angeles County to the 1990 Census -- D: Question Wording for the Surveys of Southern Californians and of Koreans in Los Angeles -- E: The Korean American Perspective on inter-Group Relations in Los Angeles, February-March 1992 -- References -- Index
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