Pluralist public policy process theories without hierarchical racial caste and post-racial caste

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The following provides an overview of this article and racial caste in the USA. I first give a quote by Fannie Lou Hamer, who inspired the research and analysis of this article. The abstract of the article then follows this. "All of this is on account of we want to register, to become first-class citizens. And if the [Mississippi] Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?” --Fannie Lou Hamer, Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic Party Convention, August 22, 1964 Abstract: Classic pluralist theorists, based on Enlightenment ideals of democracy, equality, and individual rights, posit that interest groups engage in political pressure, bargaining, lobbying, and mobilization of bias, and no single group politically dominates. From 1619 to the end of American civil rights in the 1960s, the historical agenda of segments of a dominant white caste has been a stratified racial hierarchy. The effort to reverse the progress of civil rights and advance new forms of a racial hierarchy since 1970 has included countering voting rights, police violence, mass incarceration, housing, education, and economic discrimination, and laws prohibiting the teaching of accurate scholarly conclusions about US institutional racism. Scholarly endeavors in public policy process theory need to incorporate as a significant policy driver, as described in Critical Race Theory, how stratified and non-pluralistic American racialized practices operate and dominate in public policy processes.

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Pluralist public policy process theories, including Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and Advocacy Coalition Framework in political science, assume that the Enlightenment ideals of democracy, equality, and individual rights posit that interest groups engage in political pressure, bargaining, lobbying, and mobilization of bias, and no single group politically dominates. This article demonstrates that non-Enlightenment inegalitarian trends in USA politics also equally coexist. Thus, a significant revamping of pluralist public policy process theories is needed. To read the details of this, the entire article is located here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394153448_Pluralist_public_policy_process_theories_without_hierarchical_racial_caste_and_post-racial_caste_Is_this_America

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