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Title:

Voting rights and minority representation : redistricting, 1992-2002 / edited by David A. Bositis.

Publisher:

University Press of AmericaInc.,
University Press of AmericaInc.,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Election districts--United States--Congresses.
Apportionment (Election law)--United States--Congresses.
Minorities--Suffrage--United States--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Bositis, David A.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (U.S.)

Notes:

Proceedings of a one-day conference in May 2002 entitled "Redistricting, 1992-2002: Voting Rights and Minority Representation", convened by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction: advancing minority voting rights: how do we get from here to there? / Anita Earls -- Redistricting and voting rights issues, 1992-2002: a legal analysis / Laughlin McDonald -- Political parties, redistricting, and minority representation: the Southern States, 1992-2002 / David A. Bositis -- Drawing effective minority districts: a conceptual model / Lisa Handley -- Redistricting 2000: a lost opportunity for Latinos / Leo F. Estrada -- Reapportionment/redistricting politics in Georgia: the 1990s and 2001-2002: reflections of a participant-observer / Bob Holmes -- Racial redistricting and Southern Republican congressional gains in the 1990s / David Lublin.

ISBN:

9780761830436
076183043X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70914798

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)