Political Volatility in the United States: How Racial and Religious Groups Win and Lose

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Figures and Tables
	Figures
	Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Political Volatility
	Chapter Outline
	The Importance of Differences between Groups and Within One Group
I: Introducing the Theory and Principles of the Atomic Structure
Chapter 1: Political Volatility and Social Groups: A Puzzle
	The Chosen One
Chapter 2: An Overview of the Atomic Structure
	ADVICE: The Atomic Structure and its Operating Principles
	A Deeper Look at Romney’s Religion
	Political Volatility beyond the Racial and Religious Minorities
Chapter 3: Rationality and Perceptions: Political Habits and Responses
	Rationality and its Limits
	Political Decision Based on Perception and Habit
	Voting and Information Search
	Threat and Information Search
	Perception of Threat and Biology
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Origins of Multiple Threats
	Otherness as the Source of Multiple Threats
	In-group Favoritism
	Out-group Hostility
Chapter 5: Concrete and Abstract Threats: Group Perceptions and Responses
	WASPs and the Problem of Multiple Groups
	Group Similarities and WASP Perceptions of Multiple Threats
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: Hostility and Group Experiences: The ADVICE Principles (I)
	German Protestant Experience
	Black Experience
	White Catholic Experience
	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapter 7: Volatility: The ADVICE Principles (II)
	Response Range and Measures of Aggression
	Aggression: Measures on Seven Levels
	Conclusion
Chapter 8: Internal Threat, Competition, and the Atomic Structure: The ADVICE Principles (III)
	Trail of Tears
	Abstract Threat and Concrete Threat Revisited
	Dualism in U.S. Politics
	The Atomic Structure in American Politics
II: Applying the Atomic Structure Theory to American Political Developments
Chapter 9: The Shift Away from WASP Domination
	Dominant Core in a Political System
	Competing Views on the End of WASP Domination
Chapter 10: Atomic Structure and the WASP Decline
	The Relationship between the Core and Peripheries
	The Relationship between the Two Political Coalitions
	The Relationship between the Peripheries
	Assimilation of White Catholics to the Core
	Conclusion
Chapter 11: The Core of the New Atomic Structure
	Whites as a Group
	Race and Political Parties in Contemporary Elections
	Migration, Demographic Change, and Minority Political Power
	White Group Influence in American Electoral Politics
	Group Influences in the Legislative Arena
	Conclusion
Chapter 12: Racial Minority versus Religious Minority: The 2012 Presidential Election
	The Minority Candidates
	Theories and Hypotheses: Solving the Chapter 1 Puzzle
	Data and Method
	Findings on the 2012 GOP Primaries
	The 2012 General Election
	Conclusion
Chapter 13: The Surge of White Nationalism in the Trump Era
	Finding the “Right” Strategy to Win the White Vote
	The Threat Environment behind the Rise of Trump
	The Reordering of Multiple Threats in the Trump Era
	Anti-Immigration Public Opinion and Public Policy
	A Statistical Analysis of Anti-Immigration Public Opinion
	The Effect of the Atomic Structure on the 2016 Presidential Election
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	Solving the Political Puzzles
	The Atomic Structure Is Not a Hierarchical /Caste System
	Volatility and Political Progress
Bibliography
Index
About the Author