Beyond the Barrio

Beyond the Barrio: Latinos in the 2004 Elections analyzes the mobilization of Latino voters at the state and national levels during the 2004 campaign and the efforts of Latino communities to influence electoral outcomes. The volume is the most recent installment in the quadrennial analyses of Latinos and national elections begun in 1988 by Rodolfo de la Garza and Louis DeSipio. This ongoing project is the only scholarly effort to track the emergence of Latino influence in U. S. politics over the last two decades. Book jacket.

Rodolfo O. de la Garza is Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science, Columbia University. Louis DeSipio is associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine. David L. Leal is associate professor of Government and Director of the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.