Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Washington, DC : Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies ; Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Summary

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.

Subject

• Election districts > United States > Congresses
• Apportionment (Election law) > United States > Congresses
• Minorities > Suffrage > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of a one-day conference held in May 2002 and convened by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 076183043X (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

• 70914798
• SCSB-10474977

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library