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Congress and Africa's constituency: The intersection of racial factors and related interests and business interests in the development of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act.

机译：国会和非洲选区：种族因素与相关利益和商业利益在《非洲增长和机会法》发展中的交集。

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Congress has a resurgent interest in Africa. This interest is often framed as a response to the growing influence of the African-American members of Congress and the Black electorate. It is framed as a matter of business interest in expanding trade and managing markets. This dissertation focuses on the role of racial factors and related interests and business interests as influences on the decision making of members of Congress. It focuses on the role of racial factors and related interests and business interests as competing, conflicting, and converging influences in the behavior of Congress and interest groups involved with Africa foreign policy making.; African-American members of Congress are most acutely affected by these two variables given the composition of their constituency. Some African-American members of Congress like many other members of Congress feel an affinity to their ethnic homeland, incorporating its people and geography as a distant but relevant interest. In addition to their electorate, African-American members of Congress are pressured by many groups involved with an Africa agenda. Part of the work of this dissertation examines the differences and similarities the behavior of members of Congress who have significant African-American constituencies and those who do not. The principal research is whether members' of Congress policy-making decisions related to the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act are more likely to be aligned with business interests in contrast to racial interests, when racial interests are not a clearly salient influences in their constituency. A historiography of congressional behavior, business interest, and racial interest is provided as context for the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. The study examines what interest groups were involved in the development of the Act and how they sought to affect its legislative content. At the core of the study is the role of members of Congress in shaping the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. The research approach and methodology utilizes public documents, primary source documents from interest groups, interviews, and roll call analysis. The influences of business interests and constituent demographic characteristics are considered in members of Congress policy decisions.; The study found that members of Congress and in particular its African-American legislators find themselves in a difficult political circumstance in efforts to advance core interests of their constituencies in a majoritarian and party dominated institutions. This may leave African-American legislators and certain interest groups little alternatives other than to find incremental and symbolic achievements sufficient in lull periods. Members of Congress' policy making decisions related to the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act were likely to be aligned with business interests consistent with racial factors such as majority-minority district composition and other interests salient in their districts.
机译：国会对非洲怀有复兴的兴趣。人们通常将这种兴趣描述为对非裔美国国会议员和黑人选民日益增长的影响的回应。它被视为在扩展贸易和管理市场方面的商业利益问题。本文着眼于种族因素及相关利益和商业利益对国会议员决策的影响。它着眼于种族因素以及相关利益和商业利益在与非洲外交政策制定相关的国会和利益集团的行为中的竞争，冲突和趋同影响中的作用。鉴于其选民组成，美国国会议员受这两个变量的影响最为严重。像许多其他国会议员一样，一些非裔美国人国会议员也对他们的民族故乡产生了一种亲和力，将其人民和地理位置纳入了遥远但相关的利益。除了其选民，国会的非裔美国人成员还受到许多参与非洲议程的团体的压力。本论文的部分工作考察了拥有重要非裔美国人选区的国会议员和没有重要选民的国会议员的行为的异同。主要研究是，与种族利益相比，与种族利益相比，国会议员与非洲增长和机会法有关的决策决策是否更有可能与商业利益保持一致，而种族利益对选民的影响并不明显。提供了有关国会行为，商业利益和种族利益的历史记录，作为《非洲增长和机会法案》的背景。该研究调查了该法的制定涉及哪些利益集团以及他们如何设法影响其立法内容。该研究的核心是国会议员在制定《非洲增长和机会法》中的作用。研究方法和方法利用公共文档，利益集团的主要原始文档，访谈和唱名分析。在国会议员的决策中考虑了商业利益和组成人口特征的影响。该研究发现，国会议员，尤其是其非裔美国人的立法者，在努力推动其在多数派和政党主导的机构中的选民的核心利益时，处在艰难的政治环境中。这可能会使非裔美国人的立法者和某些利益集团别无选择，只能在平静时期找到足够的象征性成就。国会议员与《非洲增长与机会法》有关的决策很可能与符合种族因素的商业利益相一致，例如少数族裔地区的组成以及所在地区的其他重要利益。

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    Jones, William G.;

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    Howard University.;

  • 授予单位 Howard University.;
  • 学科 History Black.; Political Science International Law and Relations.; Sociology Ethnic and Racial Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2005
  • 页码 249 p.
  • 总页数 249
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 非洲史;国际法;民族学;
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