Race and redistricting in the 1990s /

Race and redistricting in the 1990s /

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Imprint:New York : Agathon Press, ©1998.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
Series:Agathon series on representation ; v. 5
Agathon series on representation ; v. 5.
Subject:
United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Election districts.
United States. -- Congress. -- House.
Election districts -- United States.
Apportionment (Election law) -- United States.
Minorities -- Political activity -- United States.
Apportionment (Election law)
Election districts.
Minorities -- Political activity.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11127109
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Other authors / contributors:Grofman, Bernard.
ISBN:0875862659
9780875862651
0875861237
9780875861234
0875862624
9780875862620
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-384) and index.
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Summary:A portrait of how the 1990's round of redistricting treated the racial and linguistic minorities that had been given special protections by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, primarily African-Americans, but also Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and those of Spanish heritage. Throughout the volume, the primary focus is on the practical politics of redistricting and its consequences for racial representation. Almost all the authors have been directly involved in the 1990's redistricting process either as a legislator, a member of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, a member of a.
Other form:Print version: Race and redistricting in the 1990s. New York : Agathon Press, ©1998 0875861237
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction Race and Redistricting in the 1990s
  • Part I. Theoretical and Empirical Issues
  • Electing Minority-Preferred Candidates to Legislative Office: The Relationship Between Minority Percentages in Districts and the Election of Minority-Preferred Candidates
  • Representation and Ambition in the New African-American Congressional Districts: the Supply-Side Effects
  • Estimating the Impact of Voting-Rights-Related Districting on Democratic Strength in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Part 2. Legal and Enforcement Issues
  • Voting Rights in the 1990s: an Overview
  • Post-1990 Redistrictings and the Preclearance Requirement of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
  • Appendix I. Section 5 Redistricting Cases and Decisions
  • Appendix Ii. Post-1990 Objections to Local Redistricting Plans
  • Part III. Case Studies
  • Predictably Unpredictable: the Alaskan State Supreme Court and Reapportionment
  • Reapportionment Wars: Party, Race, and Redistricting in California, 1971-1992
  • Reapportionment Strategies in the 1990s: The Case of Georgia
  • Race and Representational Districting in Louisiana
  • Congressional Redistricting in North Carolina
  • Legislative and Congressional Districting in South Carolina
  • The Politics of Race: The Virginia Redistricting Experience, 1991-1997
  • Part IV. Districting Commissions and Minority Empowerment
  • Is There a Better Way to Redistrict?
  • New York City Redistricting: A View from Inside
  • References / Author Index
  • References
  • Court Cases
  • Index
  • About the Editor

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