Examines how and why government leaders understand and respond to African Americans and Latinos in northeastern cities with strong political traditions.

Black voters can make or break a presidential election--look at the close electoral results in 2000 and the difference the disenfranchised Black vote in Florida

Focusing on four medium-sized northeastern cities with strong political traditions, Electoral Politics Is Not Enough analyzes conditions under which white leade

One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that

Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic i