The Interaction of Policy and Law: How the Courts Came to Treat Annexations under the Voting Rights Act
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 429-458
ISSN: 1528-4190
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In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 429-458
ISSN: 1528-4190
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 507
ISSN: 1527-8034
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 261-264
ISSN: 1527-8034
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 261
ISSN: 1527-8034
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 293-320
ISSN: 1528-4190
Courts, both state and federal, often play a substantial role in the adoption and implementation of changes in public policy. Properly understood, the impact of court decisions must be examined in the context of actions and reactions by other branches of government, political parties, and interest groups. Among the most transformative court decisions over the last half century are those involving legislative reapportionment and minority voting rights. Beginning in the 1960s, the federal courts restructured the nation's political institutions through decisions striking down malapportioned legislatures and local governing bodies through what used to be termed the "reapportionment revolution," perhaps the only revolution ignored altogether by historians. Shortly thereafter the courts extended their attack on quantitative vote dilution (which the "one-person, one-vote" standard is designed to address) to include protection against electoral rules that dilute the voting strength of racial minorities.
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 293-320
ISSN: 0898-0306
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 373
ISSN: 1527-8034
In: Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Band 11, S. 275
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In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 48, S. 146-158
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Political geography, Band 48, S. 146
ISSN: 0962-6298
This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization. The book tells the story of the black struggle for equal political participation in eight core southern states from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s--with special emphasis on the period since 1965. The contributors use a variety of quantitative methods to show how the act dramatically increased black registration and black and Mexican-American office holding. They also explain modern voting rights law as it pertains to minority citizens, discussing important legal cases and giving numerous examples of how the law is applied. Destined to become a standard source of information on the history of the Voting Rights Act, Quiet Revolution in the South has implications for the controversies that are sure to continue over the direction in which the voting rights of American ethnic minorities have evolved since the 1960s