[Marxism] book reviewer wanted

["George Snedeker" <snedeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Socialism and Democracy is looking sfor someone to review a new book on 
immigrant voting rights. if you are interested, please write to me ofline at 
snedeker2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx info about Socialism and Democracy go to 
www.sdonline.org

Here is some info about the book:
 

Routledge is Proud to Announce the Publication of

 

Democracy For All

Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

Ron Hayduk

 

2006 : 256 pp

Pb: 0-415-95073-2: $24.95

 

Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that 
immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half

dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise 
to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions

from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in 
another little-known fact: for most of the country's history-from the founding

until the 1920s-noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in 
local, state, and even federal elections, and also held public office such

as alderman, coroner, and school board member. Globally, over forty countries 
on nearly every continent permit voting by noncitizens. Legal immigrants,

or resident aliens, pay taxes, own businesses and homes, send their children to 
public schools, and can be drafted or serve in the military, yet proposals

to grant them voting rights are often met with great resistance. But, in a 
country where "no taxation without representation" was once a rallying cry for

revolution, such a proposition may not, after all, be so outlandish.

 

Democracy for All examines the politics and practices of noncitizen voting in 
the United States, chronicling the rise and fall-and re-emergence-of immigrant

voting in the U.S. In addition to making the case for noncitizen voting, this 
book takes a close look at the politics of and actors in recent campaigns

that successfully reestablished noncitizen voting, others that failed, and ones 
that are currently underway. Democracy for All explores the prospects for

a truly universal suffrage in America.

About the Author

 

RON HAYDUK teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community 
College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Gatekeepers to

the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York. Hayduk has worked 
in government, consults to policy organizations and is co-founder of The

Immigrant Voting Project (

www.immigrantvoting.org).
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