Voting Rights and Minority Representation: Redistricting, 1992-2002 (Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076183043X ISBN 13: 9780761830436

Publisher: University Press Of America, 2006

Synopsis

Throughout its history, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has called attention to the importance of the redistricting process for minority representation. To help those who share these concerns, and to understand the first redistricting process of the twenty-first century, the Joint Center convened a one-day conference entitled "Redistricting, 1992-2002: Voting Rights and Minority Representation." The May 2002 conference brought together many of the nation's most influential figures in the voting-rights and redistricting community. The six major papers presented at the conference form the core of this volume, which has been enriched by the inclusion of an introductory commentary by one of the conference's discussants. Voting Rights and Minority Representation will contribute to future enhancements of voting rights and minority representation.

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Review:

Voting Rights and Minority Representation provides an invaluable description of the status of majority-minority districts and consequently minority representation in the United States...The book supplements and improves upon the mounting evidence...for the type of institutional change that truly encourages equality...--Corina S. Schulze, University of New Orleans "American Review of Politics "

About the Author:

David A. Bositis is a Senior Research Associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Dr. Bositis has served as an expert witness in a number of major voting rights court cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court's Hays v. Louisiana II and Johnson v. Mortham in Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 076183043X
• ISBN 13: 9780761830436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Bositis David A.