This up-to-date collection of essays addresses key elements of the law and politics of voting rights: the Supreme Court's jurisprudence, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, and the opportunities for enhanced minority representation posed by alternative electoral systems. This volume, comprised of contributions by leading legal and political science practitioners in the field of voting rights, will be a valuable resource to experienced researchers and newcomers to the field. It includes current assessments of the intricacies of the Supreme Court's decisions, current research on the impact of the the Voting Rights Act on the various minority groups it purports to assist, and critical analysis of the use of alternative electoral systems.
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?[G]athers an eclectic selection of opinions into a concise book....A real strength of Rush's volume is the insightful examination of the effect of the Voting Rights Act on women, and on minorities other than African Americans.?-American Political Science Review
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minority electoral opportunities, equipopulous districts, multiseat elections, patronage firing, racial gerrymandering cases, white primary cases, citizen voting age population, nonminority women, alternative election systems, voting rights debate, reapportionment politics, districting principles, vote dilution claims, voting rights advocates, minority rights advocates, state legislative districts, minority vote dilution, reapportionment law, reapportionment cases, multimember districts, voting rights protection, districting plan, reapportionment revolution, partisan gerrymandering, polarized voting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Voting Rights Act, United States, Justice Department, North Carolina, African Americans, New York, Fourteenth Amendment, Justice O'Connor, Fifteenth Amendment, Justice Brennan, House of Representatives, Justice Thomas, First Amendment, New Zealand, Dilution Fail, New Jersey, Case Date Court State Minority, Justice Kennedy, South Carolina, Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice Harlan, State Board of Elections, United Nations, Chief Justice Warren, City At-large New!
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minority electoral opportunities, equipopulous districts, multiseat elections, patronage firing, racial gerrymandering cases, white primary cases, citizen voting age population, nonminority women, alternative election systems, voting rights debate, reapportionment politics, districting principles, vote dilution claims, voting rights advocates, minority rights advocates, state legislative districts, minority vote dilution, reapportionment law, reapportionment cases, multimember districts, voting rights protection, districting plan, reapportionment revolution, partisan gerrymandering, polarized voting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Voting Rights Act, United States, Justice Department, North Carolina, African Americans, New York, Fourteenth Amendment, Justice O'Connor, Fifteenth Amendment, Justice Brennan, House of Representatives, Justice Thomas, First Amendment, New Zealand, Dilution Fail, New Jersey, Case Date Court State Minority, Justice Kennedy, South Carolina, Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice Harlan, State Board of Elections, United Nations, Chief Justice Warren, City At-large New!
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- Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights ACT in Perspective by Bernard N. Grofman on 5 pages
- United States Electoral Systems: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Contributions in Political Science) by Wilma Rule on 4 pages
- Russian Women in Politics and Society (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Norma Corigliano Noonan on 4 pages
- The Supreme Court (American Government Today) by Mark C. Sanders on 4 pages
- Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (Agathon Series on Representation) by Bernard Grofman on 4 pages
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- Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress by Katherine Tate in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Governance by Decree: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act in Dallas (Studies in Government and Public Policy) by Ruth P. Morgan in Back Matter
- Selected Works of Juan Donoso Cortes: (Contributions in Political Science) by Jeffrey P. Johnson in Back Matter
- Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Government? by Stephen J. Wayne on page 169
- The Myth of the Imperial Judiciary: Why the Right is Wrong about the Courts by Mark Kozlowski in Back Matter
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