Steadfast Democrats (eBook)

How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior

Chryl N. Laird, Ismail K. White (Autoren)

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2020
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20196-2 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats-a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s. Why has ideological change failed to push more Black Americans into the Republican Party? Steadfast Democrats answers this question with a pathbreaking new theory that foregrounds the specificity of the Black American experience and illuminates social pressure as the key element of Black Americans' unwavering support for the Democratic Party.Ismail White and Chryl Laird argue that the roots of Black political unity were established through the adversities of slavery and segregation, when Black Americans forged uniquely strong social bonds for survival and resistance. White and Laird explain how these tight communities have continued to produce and enforce political norms-including Democratic Party identification in the post-Civil Rights era. The social experience of race for Black Americans is thus fundamental to their political choices. Black voters are uniquely influenced by the social expectations of other Black Americans to prioritize the group's ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. When navigating the choice of supporting a political party, this social expectation translates into affiliation with the Democratic Party. Through fresh analysis of survey data and original experiments, White and Laird explore where and how Black political norms are enforced, what this means for the future of Black politics, and how this framework can be used to understand the electoral behavior of other communities.An innovative explanation for why Black Americans continue in political lockstep, Steadfast Democrats sheds light on the motivations consolidating an influential portion of the American electoral population.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Zusatzinfo: 41 b/w illus. 33 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • activism • Affirmative Action • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) • African Americans • African American Studies • Ambiguity • americans • Attendance • ballot • barack obama • Black Church • black Democrats • black elite • black identity • black people • black political behavior • black political decision making • Black Power • Black Report • black Republicans • black social networks • black twitter • Black Visions • Bowdoin College • Cathy Cohen • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Civil Rights Movement • Collective Action • conformity • Consideration • Cost–benefit analysis • Decision-Making • defection • Duke University • Election • electoral strategy • Empowerment • enforcement of group norms • ethnic group • Explanation • General Social Survey • Government • Group Cohesiveness • Group dynamics • group identity • group norms • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Identity politics • Ideology • Incentive • individual disposition • inference • Ingroups and outgroups • Institution • Interview • Interviewer effect • Iteration • kinship • Liberal conservatism • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Michael Dawson • minority group • Multiracial Americans • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Urban League • Norm (social) • obstacle • Opinion Poll • Oppression • Participation (decision making) • partisanship identification • party defection • Party Identification • party loyalty • Percentage point • person of color • Pew Research Center • political behavior • Political Campaign • Political History • Political Ideology • Political organization • Political Party • Political Science • Politics • Probability • Publishing • race and ethnic politics • Race (human categorization) • Race Traitor • racialized social pressure • Racial politics • Racial segregation • Racism • Reinforcement • Respondent • self-concept • Self-Interest • self-interest vs. group-interest • Slavery • Social capital • social constraint • Social Cost • Social dilemma • Social distance • Social Environment • Social Exclusion • Social Inequality • social relation • Southern strategy • Southern University • Spencer Overton • switching party identification • Tax • Telephone interview • The Boundaries of Blackness • Trade-off • Twitter • uncle tom • underclass • Voter turnout • Voting • Voting Behavior • voting bloc • voting patterns • welfare • white americans • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20196-X / 069120196X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20196-2 / 9780691201962