Ethnic Ironies

Describing the role of Latino electorates in national- and state-level politics during the 1992 elections, this book examines Latino politics from the top down, looking at the efforts of candidates and campaigns to speak to Latino concerns and to mobilize Latino voters, and from the bottom up, reviewing the efforts of Latinos to win electoral office and to influence electoral outcomes. The core of the book consists of eight state-level analyses and a chapter that synthesizes and integrates the findings of these case studies.