Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. [Paperback]

Ron Hayduk (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415950732 | ISBN-13: 978-0415950732 | Publication Date: January 15, 2006 | Edition: New edition

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. These practices have their roots in another little known fact: for most of the country's history from the founding until the 1920s - non-citizens voted in 22 states' local, state and even federal elections and also held public office such as alderman, coroner and school board member. This book presents arguments for and against non-citizen voting rights and examines contemporary political organisations and actors, who fought for and against campaigns to reinstate non-citizen voting, that are currently underway and, and other campaigns that failed.

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This is an immensely valuable and promising project...tackled in a serious and through way. This book has a chance to speak to a broad national audience in a clear and accessible manner.
–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.
–Alexander Keyssar, Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard University, and author of The Right to Vote

This passionately argued and thoroughly documented work is the best single study of whether to grant electoral rights to immigrant non-citizens. Hayduk carefully, clearly, and compellingly dissects the past, present, and future of one of our era's most important civil rights challenges.
–John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, City University Graduate Center

Millions of long-term non-citizen residents abide in the United States without any formal representation in its democratic political system. Hayduk provides a thorough, and much-needed brief outlining the history, contemporary status, and arguments for (and against) non-citizen voting in the U.S. An excellent source for an important question in American politics today.
–Michael Jones-Correa, Department of Government, Cornell University

About the Author

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 (www.immigrantvoting.org).

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; New edition edition (January 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415950732
• ISBN-13: 978-0415950732
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #840,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Anti-American, Should be written in Chinese, June 8, 2010

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This review is from: Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. (Paperback)

The premise is all illegal aliens should have the right to vote.

I bought the book to see if there were any legitimate reason why this should be so.

There was none presented other than the deafening tones of the Internationale.

Sadly, this is the tune sung by Obama, most Democrats who favor personal power over betterment of country, and all members of La Raza.

It is a sad commentary that so many of our votes are now being exercised in some precincts by those who wrongfully do so - sort of "vote stealing", right along with the welfare, health care and other rights that should go only to citizens and lawful residents in my humble opinion.