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Informationen zum Autor By Tyson D. King-Meadows Klappentext List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: Congressional Authority and Voting Rights EnforcementA Retrospective and Prospective Look at the Voting Rights ActChapter 1: Why Discretion Matters in Voting Rights EnforcementChapter 2: Obama's Inheritance: The Johnson Framework, the VRA, and Faith in Federal PowerThe Challenge to Congressional AuthorityChapter 3: Misdirection: Political Theatre and the 2006 Reauthorization of Section 5Chapter 4: Partisan Spoils of Office: A post-Shaw Judicial Philosophy of Civic LiteracyChapter 5: Is "Bull Connor" Dead? Contemporary Public Opinion on Voting Rights PolicyChapter 6: A Battle of Principals: Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush AdministrationA Systems Theory Approach to EnforcementChapter 7: The Macro-Political Context Shaping Enfranchisement, 2000-2008Conclusion: Regulating Discretion and the Challenge of Post-Racial PoliticsAppendix 1Appendix 2Selected Bibliography Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: Congressional Authority and Voting Rights EnforcementA Retrospective and Prospective Look at the Voting Rights ActChapter 1: Why Discretion Matters in Voting Rights EnforcementChapter 2: Obama's Inheritance: The Johnson Framework, the VRA, and Faith in Federal PowerThe Challenge to Congressional AuthorityChapter 3: Misdirection: Political Theatre and the 2006 Reauthorization of Section 5Chapter 4: Partisan Spoils of Office: A post-Shaw Judicial Philosophy of Civic LiteracyChapter 5: Is "Bull Connor" Dead? Contemporary Public Opinion on Voting Rights PolicyChapter 6: A Battle of Principals: Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush AdministrationA Systems Theory Approach to EnforcementChapter 7: The Macro-Political Context Shaping Enfranchisement, 2000-2008Conclusion: Regulating Discretion and the Challenge of Post-Racial PoliticsAppendix 1Appendix 2Selected Bibliography...