Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts
- ISBN-10
- 0226092704
- ISBN-13
- 9780226092706
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-10
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- David T. Canon
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List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Race, Redistricting, and Representation in the U.S. House of RepresentativesChapter One: Black Interests, Difference, Commonality, and RepresentationChapter Two: A Legal Primer on Race and RedistrictingChapter Three: The Supply-Side Theory of Racial Redistricting, with Matthew M. Schousen and Patrick J. SellersChapter Four: Race and Representation in the U.S. House of RepresentativesChapter Five: Links to the ConstituencyChapter Six: Black Majority Districts: Failed Experiment or Catalyst for a Politics of Commonality?Appendix A. Data SourcesAppendix B. Procedures for Coding the Newspaper StoriesNotesReferencesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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