Race and Redistricting in the 1990s - Vol. 5 - Couverture rigide

Grofman, Bernard

 
9780875861234: Race and Redistricting in the 1990s - Vol. 5
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0875861237 ISBN 13 : 9780875861234
Editeur : Algora Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

THE ROLE OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, voting rights questions, and the most important legal issues related to race and redistricting seemed largely settled in the light of Thornburg v. Gingles (1986). All that changed dramatically in the mid-1990s. Whether we assign the principal reason for this change as outrage at the shape of some of the 1990s' districts that were carefully crafted to make the election of minority candidates near certain, or racist backlash to the dramatic minority gains in descriptive representation that occurred in 1992 and earlier, or simply the inevitable spillover into the voting rights arena of the ongoing discontent of the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court with earlier Courts' uses of the Civil War Amendments as a justification for various kinds of affirmative action, there can be no doubt that the previously arcane issue of districting became part of both the legal and political agenda in a way that it had not been since the years immediately following Baker v. Carr. The aim of this volume is to contribute to both the public and scholarly debate about voting rights and race and redistricting by focusing on the "on the ground" realities rather than on discussion of constitutional jurisprudence in the abstract.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

THE ROLE OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, voting rights questions, and the most important legal issues related to race and redistricting seemed largely settled in the light of Thornburg v. Gingles (1986). All that changed dramatically in the mid-1990s. Whether we assign the principal reason for this change as outrage at the shape of some of the 1990s' districts that were carefully crafted to make the election of minority candidates near certain, or racist backlash to the dramatic minority gains in descriptive representation that occurred in 1992 and earlier, or simply the inevitable spillover into the voting rights arena of the ongoing discontent of the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court with earlier Courts' uses of the Civil War Amendments as a justification for various kinds of affirmative action, there can be no doubt that the previously arcane issue of districting became part of both the legal and political agenda in a way that it had not been since the years immediately following Baker v. Carr. The aim of this volume is to contribute to both the public and scholarly debate about voting rights and race and redistricting by focusing on the "on the ground" realities rather than on discussion of constitutional jurisprudence in the abstract.

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Éditeur
Algora Publishing
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0875861237
ISBN 13 
9780875861234
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
405
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0875862624 ISBN 13 :  9780875862620
Editeur : Algora Publishing, 2008
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