Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting - From the 1965 Voting Rights Act to Present

Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting covers fifty years of redistricting in California, tracing the interaction between race and partisanship and directly tying California's successes and failures to the wider issue of redistricting in the United States.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "One Person, One Vote": How Minorities Benefitted from the End of Malapportionment
Chapter 2: Gridlock over one (Latino) seat in 1971
Chapter 3: The Battle for the Latino vote and the Burton Plan of 1981
Chapter 4:Race and Redistricting in LA County: Garza v. County of Los Angeles
Chapter 5: Strategic Gridlock of 1991: Republicans Bet on the Judiciary
Chapter 6: The status quo gerrymander of 2001: MALDEF sues the Democrats
Chapter 7: The California Civil Rights Act of 2001: Latinos end at-large districts
Chapter 8: Tenth Time is a Charm: The California Redistricting Commission (CRC)
Chapter 9: Conjoined Polarization in California: how the correlation between race and partisanship changed redistricting

About the author

By Olivier Richomme

Summary

Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting covers fifty years of redistricting in California, tracing the interaction between race and partisanship and directly tying California’s successes and failures to the wider issue of redistricting in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Richomme Olivier, Olivier Richomme
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498585927
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8592-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage