When the letter betrays the spirit voting rights enforcement and African American participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
Introduction : congressional authority and voting rights enforcement -- Part I : A retrospective and prospective look at the Voting Rights Act -- Why discretion matters in voting rights enforcement -- Obama's inheritance : the Johnson framework, the VRA, and faith in federal power -- Part II. T...
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Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, UK
Lexington Books
2011
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : congressional authority and voting rights enforcement -- Part I : A retrospective and prospective look at the Voting Rights Act -- Why discretion matters in voting rights enforcement -- Obama's inheritance : the Johnson framework, the VRA, and faith in federal power -- Part II. The challenge to congressional authority -- Misdirections : political theatre and the 2006 reauthorization of section 5 -- Partisan spoils of office : a post-Shaw judicial philosophy of civic literacy -- Is "Bull Connor" dead? Contemporary public opinion on voting rights policy -- A battle of principals : Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush Administration -- The macro-political context shaping enfranchisement -- Conclusion : regulating discretion and the challenge of post-racial politics. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxviii, 345 Seiten Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 0739149148 0-7391-4914-8 9780739149140 978-0-7391-4914-0 0739149121 0-7391-4912-1 9780739149126 978-0-7391-4912-6 073914913X 0-7391-4913-X 9780739149133 978-0-7391-4913-3 |