By Thomas P. Kim
Learning the limitations that Asian american citizens face within the electoral and legislative techniques, this paintings indicates how racism is embedded in America's two-party political process. It examines the institutional boundaries that Asian american citizens face within the electoral and legislative methods.
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To be sure, liberalism has no shortage of variants and critics, yet among liberal theorists there is near-universal agreement about the basic values that mark liberalism’s hegemony in American politics. Consequently, so long as two-party scholars are talking about the United States, it is possible to incorporate the ideological consensus around liberalism in American society into theoretical models of the two-party system without losing any explanatory value. Indeed, what was heretofore implied can now be made explicit— American two-party scholars who assume a normal distribution of voters are assuming the boundary condition of the American liberal consensus.
If one party succeeds in associating the other with an illiberal interest, party competition demands that the second party’s elites must become publicly hostile to the illiberal minority, in a strategic effort to distance their party image from the illiberal minority image. The tenor and ferociousness of this hostility will probably depend on the degree of association between the party and the illiberal interest, as well as the perceived strength of the illiberal threat; the greater the association and the greater the threat, the more the party must actively and publicly direct hostility toward the illiberal interest if it wants to remain competitive within the two-party framework.
This is not to suggest that irrational anti-Asian animus has disappeared in modern American society but rather to suggest that, for purposes of understanding party strategies, voter opinions about Asian Americans matter less than whether goal-oriented, rational party elites believe that Asian Americans are popularly understood or depicted as irreducibly alien foreigners. Acknowledging this racial discourse allows us to investigate whether, how, and under what conditions goal-oriented strategic party elites will—and must—incorporate the presence of racialized Asian bodies in their political strategies, and what this means for the strategic position of Asian Americans in two-party politics.
