Mistaken identity: the Supreme Court and the politics of minority representation
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1. Verfasser: Bybee, Keith J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press ©1998
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index
Chapter 1 - The Voting Rights Act and the Struggle for Meaningful Political Membership - 12 -- - Chapter 2 - The Supreme Court and Representation: Building an Analytical Framework - 30 -- - Chapter 3 - Sound and Fury: Identifying the Role of Political Identity in the Public Debate - 51 -- - Chapter 4 - The Early Cases - 70 -- - Chapter 5 - The Later Cases: The Polarization of Judicial Debate - 98 -- - Chapter 6 - The Possibilities of Legislative Learning - 145
Is it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treated race-conscious redistricting either as a requirement of political fairness or as an exercise in corrosive racial quotas. Cutting through these contradictory positions, Keith Bybee examines the theoretical foundations of the Court's decisions and the ideological controversy those decisions have engendered. He uncovers erroneous assumptions about political identity on both sides of the debate and formulates new terms on which minority representati
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ISBN:0691094969
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9780691094960
9781400811168
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