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245 10 a| Minority representation and the quest for voting equality /c| Bernard Grofman, Lisa Handley, Richard G. Niemi.;

250 a| 1st pbk. ed.;

260 a| Cambridge ;a| New York, NY, USA :b| Cambridge University,c| 1994.;

300 a| viii, 174 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-162) and indexes.;

505 0 a| 1. The Right to Vote and the Right to Representation. The Two-Hundred-Year Struggle for Minority Voting Rights. The 1965 Voting Rights Act. Vote Dilution: The Right to Vote Versus the Right to Representation -- 2. The Evolution of a Vote Dilution Standard Through 1986. Section 5 Protection Against Vote Dilution. Constitutional Protection Against Vote Dilution. Congress Dictates a Vote Dilution Standard: The 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act. The Lower Courts Consider Amended Section 2. The Supreme Court Addresses Section 2: Thornburg v. Gingles -- 3. The Vote Dilution Standard in the Post-Gingles Era: Clarifications and Complications in the Lower Courts. What Constitutes a "Sufficiently Large and Geographically Compact" Minority Group? When Is a Minority Group "Politically Cohesive"? How Does One Determine When the White Majority Votes Sufficiently as a Bloc to Enable It... Usually to Defeat the Minority's Preferred Candidate?;

505 0 a| 4. Defining and Measuring Racially Polarized Voting and Other Elements of the Totality of the Circumstances. Defining Racial Bloc Voting. Measuring Individual Voting Behavior. Commonsense Checks on Estimates of Bloc Voting. Problems of Data Availability. Special Issues. Problems in Interpreting Racial Polarization. How Reliable Are Estimates of Racial Bloc Voting? Other Elements of the Totality of the Circumstances -- 5. Vote Dilution in Single-Member Districts and Other Issues of the 1990s. Considerations of Size. Identifying Racial Gerrymanders. Influence Districts. An Equal Opportunity to Elect Candidates of Choice. Runoff Elections. Standards Other Than the Single-Member District -- 6. The Voting Rights Act and the Realistic Politics of Second Best: An Optimistic Look to the Future. Legislative Intent and the Right to Vote Versus the Right to Representation. A Color-blind Society Versus the Institutionalization of Racial/Ethnic Divisions.;

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Minority representation and the quest for voting equality / Bernard Grofman, Lisa Handley, Richard G. Niemi.

Author/creator	Grofman, Bernard
Other author	Handley, Lisa.
Other author	Niemi, Richard G.
Format	Book
Edition	1st pbk. ed.
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University, 1994.
Description	viii, 174 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	African Americans--Suffrage. Election districts--United States. Representative government and representation--United States.

Contents	1. The Right to Vote and the Right to Representation. The Two-Hundred-Year Struggle for Minority Voting Rights. The 1965 Voting Rights Act. Vote Dilution: The Right to Vote Versus the Right to Representation -- 2. The Evolution of a Vote Dilution Standard Through 1986. Section 5 Protection Against Vote Dilution. Constitutional Protection Against Vote Dilution. Congress Dictates a Vote Dilution Standard: The 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act. The Lower Courts Consider Amended Section 2. The Supreme Court Addresses Section 2: Thornburg v. Gingles -- 3. The Vote Dilution Standard in the Post-Gingles Era: Clarifications and Complications in the Lower Courts. What Constitutes a "Sufficiently Large and Geographically Compact" Minority Group? When Is a Minority Group "Politically Cohesive"? How Does One Determine When the White Majority Votes Sufficiently as a Bloc to Enable It... Usually to Defeat the Minority's Preferred Candidate?
Contents	4. Defining and Measuring Racially Polarized Voting and Other Elements of the Totality of the Circumstances. Defining Racial Bloc Voting. Measuring Individual Voting Behavior. Commonsense Checks on Estimates of Bloc Voting. Problems of Data Availability. Special Issues. Problems in Interpreting Racial Polarization. How Reliable Are Estimates of Racial Bloc Voting? Other Elements of the Totality of the Circumstances -- 5. Vote Dilution in Single-Member Districts and Other Issues of the 1990s. Considerations of Size. Identifying Racial Gerrymanders. Influence Districts. An Equal Opportunity to Elect Candidates of Choice. Runoff Elections. Standards Other Than the Single-Member District -- 6. The Voting Rights Act and the Realistic Politics of Second Best: An Optimistic Look to the Future. Legislative Intent and the Right to Vote Versus the Right to Representation. A Color-blind Society Versus the Institutionalization of Racial/Ethnic Divisions.
Local note	Joyner-- Replacement copy for 1992 issue of this title.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-162) and indexes.
LCCN	92012041
ISBN	0521477646 (pbk.)
ISBN	9780521477642 (pbk.)

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