This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in
terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to national predominance
between 1928 and 1932. It builds quantitative and qualitative
models for the study of ethnic groups in terms of political
behavior. Focusing clearly upon political change and the role of
ethnicity, the work advances the hypothesis that Chicago's ethnic
groups responded as ethnic groups, rather than on socio-economic or
other bases, when they shifted their party allegiances in the late
twenties. This ethnic realignment was a major factor in the
redistribution of power between parties Chicago. Employing a
variety of quantitative measures and a number of conceptual tools
from the social sciences, Mr. Allswang has utilized simple
statistical procedures with clarity and discrimination. His
statistical data is based on thorough research in unpublished
census material and election returns. His qualitative data is based
in part on a comprehensive examination of the foreign language
press, supplemented by materials from other newspapers, personal
interviews, and manuscript sources. The book studies nine ethnic
groups over a generation of political development, affording
insights into urban politics and history, and into
dominant-minority and interethnic relations in politics and in the
city. Crisp in style, thorough, methodologically innovative, A
House for All Peoples will become a model for studies of United
States political history.
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