Fb2 Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. ePub

Jamin Raskin, author of "Overruling Democracy ""Democracy for All is the most thoroughgoing exploration we have of non-citizen voting in the United States, past and present.

Jamin Raskin, author of "Overruling Democracy ""Democracy for All is the most thoroughgoing exploration we have of non-citizen voting in the United States, past and present. The issues raised by Hayduk's book - particularly at a time of high rates of immigration - ought to inform public debate in communities across the nation

City police do not simply arrest local residents; sometimes, they patrol looking for outsiders. On these and many other policy issues, however, when local elected officials look to the general population for guidance, they tend to care principally about the views held by the people eligible to vote for them.

This new book examines the actual politics of voting in the United States and shows how voting rights can empower minority groups. It is not widely known that non-citizens currently vote in local elections in Maryland and in Chicago, nor that over the last decade campaigns to expand the franchise the non-citizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast.

Democracy for All examines the politics and practices of noncitizen voting in the United States, chronicling the rise and fall - and re-emergence - of immigrant voting in the . In addition to making the case for noncitizen voting, this book takes a close look at the politics of and actors in recent campaigns that successfully reestablished noncitizen voting, others that failed, and. ones that are currently underway. Democracy for All explores the prospects for a truly universal suffrage in America.

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Jamin Raskin, author of Overruling Democracy "Democracy for All is the most thoroughgoing exploration we have of non-citizen voting in the United States, past and present. The issues raised by Hayduk's book - particularly at a time of high rates of immigration - ought to inform public debate in communities across the nation

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Ron Hayduk teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New .

Ron Hayduk teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He has written about political participation, elections, social movements, immigration, and race. Hayduk has worked in government, consulted to several policy organizations and is co-founder of The Immigrant Voting Project (ww. mmigrantvoting.