Politics in the Lifeboat: Immigrants and the American Democratic Order. (book reviews)

This ambitious study expands our understanding of ethnic political incorporation in the United States. Nonetheless, the author arrives at exaggerated or indefensible conclusions about the contribution immigrants have made to American democracy. Its conclusions notwithstanding, Americanist and those studying any polity experiencing substantial infusions of refugees and immigrants should find this volume useful.

The study reexamines the claim that ethnic heterogeneity causes instability--a proposition with extensive empirical support and one that analysts since Aristotle have made into ...

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