Whose Votes Count? - Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights

Thernstrom maneuvers successfully between the civil rights ideology and the requirements of democratic politics. She sustains a strong concern for the struggles of American blacks while conceding very little to the affirmative action or electoral quota position. Exactly right. - Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Info autore

Abigail Thernstrom is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and the vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Riassunto

In this absorbing book, political scientist Abigail Thernstrom analyzes the radical transformation of the Voting Rights Act in the years since its passage. Whose Votes Count? should stimulate the overdue discussion that the subject deserves among all those concerned with American politics.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abigail M. Thernstrom, Thernstrom Abigail M.
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.1989
• EAN: 9780674951969
• ISBN: 978-0-674-95196-9
• Peso: 499 g
• Serie: Twentieth Century Fund Books/R; Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government