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Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership.(Book review)

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-DEC-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership by Zoltan L. Hajnal. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 230 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.99.

For decades, scholars have debated the extent to which black elected officials have made a difference in improving overall in a...

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...conditions their black communities. One set of scholars has argued that black representation has brought about important changes, even though the changes are either small or limited, in comparison to the seemingly intractable problems of racial and economic inequality. On the other side of the debate, however, are other scholars, who continue to argue that black elected officials are largely irrelevant, due to host of explanatory factors that range from ineptitude to white resistance as well as structural barriers.

Zoltan Hajnal, as the author of...

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