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1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Studies in Asian Americans Ser |
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Studies in Asian Americans Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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The Need for Survey DataLimitations 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 |
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5. Another Look at Asian American Ethnicity: Integration of Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles, 1992Koreans 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 |
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A: Voting and Registration in the Elections of November 1992 and 1994B: 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 |
| Summary |
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Asian Americans -- California -- Politics and government
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Asian Americans -- California -- Ethnic identity
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Asian Americans -- California -- Social conditions
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Voting -- California
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Political participation -- California
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Asian Americans -- Politics and government
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions
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Political participation
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Voting
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California
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ng, Franklin
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| ISBN |
9781317776932 |
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1317776933 |
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