UID:
almafu_9959232724902883
Format:
1 online resource (191 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-84-00-68380-0
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0-313-00065-4
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Cover -- Maximization, Whatever the Cost -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Mystery of Racial Redistricting in the Nineties -- NOTES -- 2 Transformation -- ENFORCEMENT OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 -- The Johnson Administration and the Early Years -- The Nixon Administration and the Seventies -- The Reagan Administration-Conflict Masks a Transformation -- THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 3 Bureaucratic Culture of the Voting Section -- FORGING A PATH -- PERSONNEL IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION -- Political Appointees -- The Professionals -- REGULATORY FRAMEWORK -- HUNKERING DOWN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 The Department's New Interpretation of the Voting Rights Act -- TRADITIONAL AND MODERN APPROACHES IN THE SUPREME COURT -- NUDGING THE COURT DOWN A PROGRESSIVE PATH -- THE SECTION TWO RESULTS TEST, GINGLES, AND INCORPORATION -- A NEW INTERPRETATION OF DISCRIMINATORY PURPOSE -- PURPOSE AS POLICY-OBJECTION LETTERS -- CARRYING THE FIGHT TO THE COURTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 External Influences on the Department's Decision Making -- ORGANIZED INTERESTS IN THE VOTING RIGHTS ARENA -- CIVIL RIGHTS INTEREST GROUPS -- THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS VOTING RIGHTS ADVOCATE -- THE STATES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 6 From Compromised Compliance to Conquered Provinces -- NORTH CAROLINA -- GEORGIA -- LOUISIANA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 Processes and Products of Voting Rights Act Enforcement -- PROCESSES OF THE DEPARTMENT'S ENFORCEMENT -- PRODUCTS OF THE DEPARTMENT'S ENFORCEMENT -- Federalism -- Effect on Representation -- Damage to the Department -- TOWARD A RESTORATION -- NOTES -- Afterword -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- CASE LAW -- REFERENCES -- Index -- About the Author.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-275-96649-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400683800
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