{"id":65,"date":"2008-10-10T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asian-nation.org\/headlines\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:55:14","slug":"new-studies-on-asian-american-political-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/2008\/10\/10\/new-studies-on-asian-american-political-attitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Studies on Asian American Political Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2008 Presidential campaign heads into the final stretch, two recently-released studies shed light on the nature of civic engagement and political attitudes among Asian Americans.  <\/p>\n<p>The first one is an electronic book entitled <strong><em>The State of Asian America: Trajectory of Civic and Political Engagement<\/em><\/strong>, published by the non-profit organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leap.org\/inform_main.html\">Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics<\/a>.  It contains several articles on various aspects of political participation and civic engagement among Asian Americans, written by several well-respected scholars of Asian American Studies.<\/p>\n<p>For example, there are articles entitled &#8220;Political and Civic Engagements of Immigrants,&#8221; &#8220;Asian American College Students and Civic Engagement,&#8221; &#8220;Asian American Panethnicity: Challenges and Possibilities,&#8221; and &#8220;The Usual Suspects: Asian Americans as Conditional Citizens.&#8221;  This free e-book can easily be used as a textbook by faculty like me who teach introductory\/survey courses on the Asian American Experience and is certainly a valuable resource for anyone interested to learn more about the dynamics of political empowerment among Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The second report is entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naasurvey.com\/\"><strong>2008 National Asian American Survey<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and is jointly authored by scholars from Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, and the University of Southern California.  In conducting a comprehensive national survey of political attitudes and presidential preferences among Asian Americans, the major findings of this report are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japanese American citizens are the most likely to vote (82%), followed by Asian Indian (73%), Koreans (72%), Filipinos (67%), Vietnamese (65 %) and Chinese (60%).<\/li>\n<li>41% of Asian American likely voters support Barack Obama while 24% support John McCain.  However, 34% remain undecided.<\/li>\n<li>32% of all likely Asian American voters identify with the Democratic Party, 14% identify with the Republican Party, 19% identify as Independent, and 35% are non-partisan, saying they do not identify as Democrat, Republican, or Independent.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indians, Japanese, and Koreans tend to affiliate with the Democratic Party and therefore to support Obama, while Vietnamese are more likely to identify as Republicans and support McCain.<\/li>\n<li>Asian American Democratic primary voters supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama by a 2 to 1 margin. More than half of former Clinton supporters (59%) plan to vote for Obama while 10% plan to vote for McCain and 29% are undecided.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These results confirm those I discussed in my earlier post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asian-nation.org\/headlines\/2008\/09\/new-poll-on-asian-american-presidential-preferences\/\">Asian American Presidential Preferences<\/a> and reinforce the trend that among those showing a political preference, Asian Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic, although a significant number remain undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, these two studies provide scholars like me and non-scholars like with valuable information and insight into the very important issue of political participation among Asian Americans.  I would like to thank and congratulate everyone involved with both studies for their hard work and contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2008 Presidential campaign heads into the final stretch, two recently-released studies shed light on the nature of civic engagement and political attitudes among Asian Americans.<br \/>\nThe first one is an electronic book entitled The State of Asian America: Trajectory of Civic and Political Engagement, published by the non-profit organization Leadership Education for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,352,706,707,708,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-general","category-leap","category-naas","category-political-participation","category-presidential-preference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/colorline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}