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Faces of Inequality Social Diversity in American Politics [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Political Science)
  • Author:  Hero, Rodney E.
  • Author:  Hero, Rodney E.
  • ISBN-10:  019511714X
  • ISBN-10:  019511714X
  • ISBN-13:  9780195117141
  • ISBN-13:  9780195117141
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Pages:  208
  • Pages:  208
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-1998
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-1998
  • SKU:  019511714X-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  019511714X-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100776772
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The distinctive thesis ofFaces of Inequalityis that a state's racial and ethnic composition, as much as any other factor, shapes its political processes and policies. To understand state politics, therefore, we must consider them from the perspective of social diversity. Scholars have broadly acknowledged that racial and ethnic diversity are central to American political history, but Rodney E. Hero is the first to posit and systematically examine this diversity as essential to our understanding of contemporary American politics.

In these pages, Hero regards race/ethnicity as an American dilemma whose importance transcends state boundaries, yet whose impact upon U.S. politics varies widely. He classifies states' social diversity patterns as homogenous, heterogeneous, or bifurcated, and demonstrates how these patterns influence political tendencies. Social diversity, he finds, is strongly related not only to political processes, but also to specific policies and outcomes, such as educational policies, incarceration rates, and infant mortality. Hero's interpretation provides a new way of looking at state politics, one that causes us to broadly rethink U.S. politics from the standpoint of social diversity.

A bold interpretation of the American political experience (especially at the state level) that is as challenging as it is timely,Faces of Inequalitywill be of interest to all students of race and politics in contemporary America.

1. Social Diversity and the Study of State Politics and Policy
2. The Social Diversity Interpretation in Perspective: Reviewing Other Approaches Explaining State Politics
3. Social Diversity and Political Institutions, Political Processes, and Attitudes
4. Social Diversity and Formal Institutions of State Government
5. Social Diversity and State Public Policies, I: Education, Health, Welfare
6. Social Diversity and State Public Policies, II: Other Politics
7. Social Diversity at the l�(
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