Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
figures......Page 11
tables......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 15
black empowerment and black civic activism......Page 17
economic fortunes and black civic activism......Page 24
countervailing forces......Page 28
a macro approach......Page 30
group theory of democracy......Page 33
measuring black civic activism......Page 35
sources of the data......Page 36
structure of the book......Page 37
2 Good Times and Bad......Page 41
trends in black political empowerment......Page 43
the presidency and black civic activism......Page 45
jackson presidential campaigns......Page 48
education as a resource for political empowerment......Page 49
black income inequality and black activism......Page 52
black unemployment and participation......Page 56
inflation and black civic activism......Page 58
immigration, economic competition, and black civic activism......Page 59
criminal victimization and black civic activism......Page 62
conclusion......Page 65
3 Studying Group Activism......Page 67
theory, evidence, and inferences in the study of black participation......Page 71
from individual to collective properties......Page 73
beyond methodological individualism and\rtime-bound analyses......Page 75
the statistical logic of macro-level participation......Page 79
data and measures......Page 83
determinants of aggregate political behavior in past studies......Page 84
macro forces and participation......Page 85
trends in aggregate levels of black civic participation......Page 87
summary and conclusions......Page 92
4 Echoes of Black Civic Activism......Page 95
historical dynamics in the study of race and american politics......Page 98
reconstruction, post-reconstruction, and black\rcivic participation......Page 99
black civic life in the interwar years......Page 102
world war ii, the cold war, and black civic life......Page 105
macro forces in the post–civil rights era......Page 107
a note on estimating time......Page 111
5 Shifting Forces......Page 115
demographic trends in black civic activism......Page 116
black elected officials at all levels of government......Page 126
party in power......Page 127
Changes in Inequality Within the Black Population......Page 128
Criminal Victimization Among Blacks......Page 129
estimating the effects of empowerment and distress......Page 130
countervailing effects across modes of participation......Page 135
social class and black civic activism......Page 138
countervailing forces across demographic groups......Page 142
6 From Margin to Center......Page 149
understanding the dynamics of\rafrican-american activism......Page 152
the complexities of empowerment and activism......Page 156
implications for the study of participation in america......Page 158
countervailing forces and new barriers to black civic life......Page 159
Political Activity Series......Page 163
Composite Participation Index......Page 164
Demographic Coding......Page 165
Appendix B: Variable Sources and Descriptions......Page 167
Appendix C: Time Series Models......Page 169
References......Page 175
Index......Page 185