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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Marquez, Benjamin, 1953- LULAC. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993 (OCoLC)656278706 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin Marquez |
| ISBN: | 0292751524 9780292751521 |
| OCLC Number: | 26504235 |
| Description: | x, 141 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Expressive and Purposive Incentives, 1929-1945 -- 3. Collective Goals and Individual Mobility, 1945-1960 -- 4. Mobilization and Transition, 1960-1985 -- 5. The Politics of Survival -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix. LULAC Membership Estimates, 1951-1983. |
| Responsibility: | Benjamin Márquez. |
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Abstract:
This study is the first comprehensive political history of LULAC from its founding through the 1980s. Marquez explores the group's evolution from an activist, grassroots organization in the pre- and post-World War II periods to its current status as an institutionalized bureaucracy that relies heavily on outside funding to further its politically conservative goals. His information is based in part on many primary source materials from the LULAC archives at the University of Texas at Austin, the Houston Public Library, and the University of Texas at El Paso, as well as on LULAC publications and interviews with present and past LULAC activists.
Marquez places this history within the larger theoretical framework of incentive theory to show how changing, and sometimes declining, membership rewards have influenced people's participation in LULAC and other interest groups over time. Ironically, as of 1988, LULAC could claim fewer than 5,000 dues-paying members, yet a dedicated and skillful leadership has secured sufficient government and corporate monies to make LULAC one of the most visible and active groups in Mexican American politics. Given the increasing number of interest groups and political action committees involved in national politics in the United States today, this case study of a political organization's evolution will be of interest to a wide audience in the political and social sciences, as well as to students of Mexican American and ethnic studies.
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