The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America (Paperback)

The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America By David Ericson (Editor) Cover Image
By David Ericson (Editor)
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Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as equal participants? Often, the critical issue is not whether a group is included but how it is included. Collectively, these essays elucidate a wide range of inclusion or exclusion: voting participation, representation in legislative assemblies, representation of group interests in processes of policy formation and implementation, and participation in discursive processes of policy framing.

Covering broad territory--from African Americans to Asian Americans, the transgendered to the disabled, and Latinos to Native Americans--this volume examines in depth the give and take between how policies shape political configuration and how politics shape policy. At a more fundamental level, Ericson and his contributors raise some traditional and some not-so-traditional issues about the nature of democratic politics in settings with a multitude of group identities.

About the Author


David F. Ericson is a professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. His current research focuses on the centrality of slavery to the American experience.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780415876209
ISBN-10: 0415876206
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: December 20th, 2010
Pages: 226
Language: English