Research Catalog

Title

United States electoral systems : their impact on women and minorities / edited by Wilma Rule and Joseph F. Zimmerman.

Publication

New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rule, Wilma.
• Zimmerman, Joseph Francis, 1928-

Description

xiii, 246 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions in political science, 0147-1066 ; no. 294

Uniform Title

Contributions in political science ; no. 294.

Subject

• Representative government and representation > United States
• Elections > United States
• Minorities > Political activity > United States
• Women > Political activity > United States
• Elections
• Minorities > Political activity
• Representative government and representation
• Women > Political activity
• Frau
• Nationale Minderheit
• Wahlsystem
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Fair representation for minorities and women / Joseph F. Zimmerman -- Electing minorities and women to Congress / Georgia A. Persons -- Preconditions for black and Hispanic congressional success / Bernard Grofman and Lisa Handley -- Anglo and minority women's underrepresentation in Congress : is the electoral system the culprit? / Wilma Rule and Pippa Norris -- Multimember legislative districts : minority and Anglo women's and men's recruitment opportunity / Wilma Rule -- Barriers to representing women and blacks in Pennsylvania : the impacts of demography, culture, and structure / Sandra A. Featherman -- Florida : the big electoral shakeup of 1982 / Anita Pritchard -- Creative multimember redistricting and representation of women and minorities in the Maryland legislature / M. Margaret Conway -- The effect of the "cutback" on the representation of women and minorities in the Illinois General Assembly / David H. Everson -- Patterns of legislative opportunity in Arizona : sex, race, and ethnicity / Michelle A. Saint-Germain.
• Alternative judicial election systems : solving the minority vote dilution problem / Richard L. Engstrom -- Minority and gender representation in American county legislatures : the effect of election systems / Victor DeSantis and Tari Renner -- The impact of at-large elections on the representation of minority women / Susan Welch and Rebekah Herrick -- Electing women to city council : a focus on small cities in Florida / Susan A. MacManus and Charles S. Bullock III -- Cumulative voting and limited voting in Alabama / Edward Still -- Proportional representation on New York City community school boards / Leon Weaver and Judith Baum -- Enhancing representational equity in cities / Joseph F. Zimmerman -- Electoral barriers to women / R. Darcy.

ISBN

• 0313277303
• 9780313277306
• 0275942406
• 9780275942403

LCCN

91034481

OCLC

• ocm24540925
• 24540925
• SCSB-1950986

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library