The future of the voting rights act
By: David L. Epstein ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Epstein, David, 1964-
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780871540720
Subjects: United States; African Americans -- Suffrage; Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Political competition and the modern VRA / Richard H. Pildes; title: The law of preclearance : enforcing section 5 / Peyton McCrary, Christopher Seaman, Richard Valelly; title: Rethinking section 5 / Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer; title: Trends in minority representation, 1974 to 2000 / David L. Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran; title: Congressional power to renew the preclearance provisions / Richard L. Hasen; title: Does section 5 of the voting rights still work? / Samuel Issacharoff; title: Voting rights act enforcement : navigating between high and low expectations / Bruce E. Cain and Karin Mac Donald; title: Reshaping the tub : the limits of the vra for Latino electoral politics / Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis DeSipio; title: Expanding the coverage of section 5 in Indian country / Laughlin McDonald; title: Election administration and voting rights / Stephen Ansolabehere; title: Options and strategies for renewal of section 5 of the voting rights act / Nathaniel Persily; title: The coverage curve : identifying states at the bottom of the class / Spencer Overton; title: Who's covered? Coverage formula and bailout / Michael P. McDonald; title: A third way: section 5 and the opt-in approach / Heather K. Gerken; title: Extending section 5 of the voting rights acts : the complex interaction between law and politics / Bernard Grofman and Thomas Brunell.