Why Americans don't join the party: race, immigration, and the failure (of political parties) to engage the electorate

List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Party Identification: The Historical and Ontological Origins of a Concept 33 Chapter 3: Identity, Ideology, Information, and the Dimensionality of Nonpartisanship 61 Chapter 4: Leaving the Mule Behind: Independents and African American Partisanship 103 Chapter 5: What Does It Mean to Be a Partisan? 145 Chapter 6: The Sequential Logic of Latino and Asian American Partisanship 179 Chapter 7: Beyond the Middle: Ambivalence, Extremism, and White Nonpartisans 207 Chapter 8: The Electoral Implications of Nonpartisanship 239 Chapter 9: Conclusion 276 Bibliography 291 Index 321