The political participation of Asian Americans : voting behavior in Southern California / Pei-te Lien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lien, Pei-te, 1957-

Series:

Asian Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--California--Politics and government.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--California--Ethnic identity.

Asian Americans--California--Social conditions.

Voting--California.

Voting.

Political participation--California.

Political participation.

Social conditions.

Ethnicity.

Politics and government.

California.

Physical Description:

xviii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1997.

Contents:

The Current Status: A Two-Tiered Picture 3

The Puzzle and Some Macro Answers 10

An Alternative Approach: Studying the Individuals 14

2. Theories of Ethnicity and Political Participation 21

Ethnicity 22

Asian American Panethnicity 24

Political Participation 26

Models of Minority Group Political Participation 28

Group Culture Model 28

Socioeconomic Model 29

Demographic Model 31

Socio-Psychological Model 34

Legal Constraint Model 35

3. Methodology 43

Studying Asian American Political Participation 43

The Need for Survey Data 45

Limitations of Secondary Survey Analysis 47

Data 47

Method 49

Operational Definitions 50

Political Participation 50

(Pan)ethnicity

Function of Objective Background 51

Function of Subjective Factors 52

The Structures of Panethnicity Across Racial/Ethnic Groups 54

4. The Political Participation of Asian Americans in a Multiethnic Setting: Results of the Southern California Survey 61

Comparing Asian American to Other Racial/Ethnic Groups in the Aggregate 61

Understanding Asian American Participation in a Comparative Perspective 69

Sorting Out Correlates of Participation 74

5. Another Look at Asian American Ethnicity: Integration of Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles, 1992 87

Koreans in Los Angeles 87

Preliminary Observations from Summary Statistics 89

The Structure of Korean Immigrant Ethnicity 99

Results from Multiple Regression Analysis 102

6. Does (Under-)Participation Matter? 109

The Issues 111

The Meaning of Participation Among Asian Americans 112

The Meaning of Asian Participation in a Comparative Perspective 120

Summary of Findings 128

Political Parties 132

Ethnic Community Organizations 133

Ethnic Media 135

A Voting and Registration in the Elections of November 1992 and 1994 139

C A Comparison of Selected Characteristics of Korean Americans in Los Angeles County to the 1990 Census 143

E The Korean American Perspective on inter-Group Relations in Los Angeles, February-March 1992 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.

ISBN:

0815329849

OCLC:

37341530