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Title:
Voting Rights Act reauthorization of 2006 : perspectives on democracy, participation, and power / edited by Ana Henderson ; foreword by Christopher Edley, Jr.
Publisher:
University of CaliforniaBerkeley , Berkeley Public Policy Press,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
x, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
United States.--Voting Rights Act of 1965.
United States.--Constitution.--15th Amendment.
African Americans--Suffrage.
Minorities--Suffrage--United States.
Linguistic minorities--Suffrage--United States.
Voter registration--Government policy--United States.
Representative government and representation--United States.
Other Authors:
Henderson, Ana.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Black-majority districts or black influence districts? Evaluating the representation of African Americans in the wake of Georgia v. Ashcroft / Christian R. Grose -- Racial redistricting and the election of African-American county supervisors in Mississippi / David Lublin and Cheryl Lampkin -- More information requests and the deterrent effect of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act / Luis Ricardo Fraga and Maria Lizet Ocampo -- Transforming votes into victories : turnout, institutional context, and minority representation in local politics / Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine -- An assessment of racially polarized voting for and against Latino candidates / Yishaiya Absoch, Matt A. Barreto, and Nathan D. Woods -- Majority-minority districts, co-ethnic candidates, and mobilization effects / Gary M. Segura and Nathan D. Woods -- Verifying implementation of language provisions in the Voting Rights Act / Michael Jones-Correa and Israel Waismel-Manor -- Not like the South? Regional variation and political participation through the lens of Section 2 / Ellen Katz -- Saving Section 5 : reflections on Georgia v. Ashcroft and its impact on the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act / David J. Becker -- An assessment of the bailout provisions of the Voting Rights Act / J. Gerald Hebert -- Language accommodation and the Voting Rights Act / Angelo N. Ancheta -- Language protections for all? Extending and expanding the language protections of the Voting Rights Act / Jocelyn Benson.
ISBN:
0877724237
9780877724230
OCLC:
(OCoLC)77574118
LCCN:
2007000566
Locations:
N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

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