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Polarized Voting And The Political Process: The Transformation Of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Samuel Issacharoff
Polarized Voting And The Political Process: The Transformation Of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Samuel Issacharoff
Michigan Law Review
This article attempts to provide an analytic framework for the evolved voting rights law as it confronts the persistent effects of racial factionalism in the electoral arena. Insight into the corrosiveness of racially polarized voting and its frustration of minority electoral opportunity has organized and guided the new voting rights jurisprudence. This article will argue that the combination of process distortions from majority domination of electoral outcomes and substantive deprivation from minority exclusion defines this area of law and protects it against challenge from currently fashionable academic currents. The central insights gathered from the focus on polarized voting, I will …
Rhetorical Slavery, Rhetorical Citizenship, Gerald L. Neuman
Rhetorical Slavery, Rhetorical Citizenship, Gerald L. Neuman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion by Judith N. Shklar
Of Boroughs, Boundaries And Bullwinkles: The Limitations Of Single-Member Districts In A Multiracial Context, Judith Reed
Of Boroughs, Boundaries And Bullwinkles: The Limitations Of Single-Member Districts In A Multiracial Context, Judith Reed
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This essay examines the 1991 New York Ciity Council districting, with particular focus on the problems inherent in districting a multiracial city and the limitations of single member districts as a method of minority empowerment. The essay examines specific New York City Council districts that contain more than one minority group and concludes that electing council members from at-large, borough-wide districts by cumulative voting is a more effective districting strategy to structure majoritarian collective decision-making bodies that ensure meaningful minority interest representation and participation. .