Zoltan L. Hajnal is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the award-winning books White Backlash (with Marisa Abrajano, 2015), Why Americans Don't Join the Party (with Taeku Lee, 2011), and America's Uneven Democracy (Cambridge, 2009), and has published op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He is actively involved in voting rights litigation and local election law reform.
Introduction
Part I. Fault Lines: 1. What divides us? Race, class, and political choice
Part II. The Consequences: 2. Who wins office?
3. Which voters win elections?
4. Who wins on policy?
Part III. Immigration's Rising Impact on American Democracy: 5. Immigration is reshaping Partisan politics
6. The immigration backlash in the states
Part IV. Seeking Greater Equality: 7. Democratic Party control and equality in policy representation
8. Democratic party control and minority well-being
9. Where will we go from here?
