Ballot blocked
Subtitle: the political erosion of the Voting Rights Act
By: Jesse H. Rhodes
Series: Stanford studies in law and politics; Stanford studies in law and politics
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780804797597; 9781503603516
Subjects: United States; History; Suffrage; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : explaining the puzzling evolution of the Voting Rights Act; title: Liberal ascendance and enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; title: Conservative backlash and partisan struggle over voting rights, 1968-1980; title: The growing struggle over voting rights in the 1980s and 1990s; title: Voting rights politics in an era of conservative ascendance, 2001-2013; title: Voting rights politics in the age of Obama, 2009-2016; title: Conclusion : partisan interests, institutional conflict, and the future of the voting rights struggle.