Voting Rights Act reauthorization of 2006
Subtitle: perspectives on democracy, participation, and power
By: editor, Ana Henderson ; foreword by Christopher Edley, Jr.
Contributors: Henderson, Ana.
Publisher: Berkeley Public Policy Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley [Calif.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780877724230
Subjects: United States.; United States.; African Americans -- Suffrage.; Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States.; Linguistic minorities -- Suffrage -- United States.; Voter registration -- Government policy -- United States.; Representative government and representation -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Black-majority districts or black influence districts? evaluating the representation of African Americans in the wake of Georgia v. Ashcroft / Christian R. Grose; title: Racial redistricting and the election of African-American county supervisors in Mississippi / David Lublin and Cheryl Lampkin; title: More information requests and the deterrent effect of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act / Luis Ricardo Fraga and Maria Lizet Ocampo; title: Transforming votes into victories : turnout, institutional context, and minority representation in local politics / Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine; title: An assessment of racially polarized voting for and against Latino candidates / Yishaiya Absoch, Matt A. Barreto, and Nathan D. Woods; title: Majority-minority districts, co-ethnic candidates, and mobilization effects / Gary M. Segura and Nathan D. Woods; title: Verifying implementation of language provisions in the Voting Rights Act / Michael Jones-Correa and Israel Waismel-Manor; title: Not like the South? regional variation and political participation through the lens of Section 2 / Ellen Katz; title: Saving Section 5 : reflections on Georgia v. Ashcroft and its impact on the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act / David J. Becker; title: An assessment of the bailout provisions of the Voting Rights Act / J. Gerald Hebert; title: Language accommodation and the Voting Rights Act / Angelo N. Ancheta; title: Language protections for all? extending and expanding the language protections of the Voting Rights Act / Jocelyn Benson.