Electoral Structure and Urban Policy Impact on Mexican American Communities

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the summer 1996 presidential elections. Although his face became familiar to the world at that time, his ideas and his programme were mainly a subject of speculation. A former village teacher from Orel Province, Zyuganov came to Moscow in the 1980s to work in the ideology department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and to complete doctoral work in philosophy at Moscow State University. He is a prolific writer who has rebuilt the Communist Party on his vision of a Russian socialist great power. Today he leads the Communist faction in the Duma and is chairman of the united opposition movement - the National Patriotic Union. This volume is a compilation of Zyuganov's writings on Russia's past and present and her place in the world; Russia's fate under the new leadership of Gorbachev and Yeltsin; his own vision of Russia's future under a new Communist leadership; and his reflections on the 1996 presidential election of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Biography

J. L. Polinard is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas-Pan American. His research interests are in the areas of public law and minority politics. He has published in Publius, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Journal, State and Local Government Review, and Western Political Quarterly.

Robert D. Wrinkle is a Professor at the University of Texas-Pan American, where he teaches in the Master of Public Administration program. Among his teaching and research interests are public policy and urban politics. He is the editor of Politics in the Urban Southwest and has published in State and Local Government Review, Urban Law Review, Western Political Quarterly, Social Science Journal, and Social Science Quarterly.

Tomas Longoria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His primary interests are in urban policy and urban politics. He has published in Urban Affairs Quarterly, State and Local Government Review, Western Political Quarterly, Social Science Journal, and Social Science Quarterly.

Norman E. Binder is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Brownsville. His research interests include minority and ethnic politics as well as Latin American politics. He is the author of a study of Mexican American office holding in south Texas.