T he relationship between equal protection and facially neutral practices with discriminatory
effects has been the subject of two rounds of legal questions. In the first round, the issue was …

Contrary to Cameron, Epstein, and O'Halloran's article (1996),(1) racial redistricting remains
vital to the election of African Americans to the US House, and (2) the tradeoff between black …

Something important is missing from the prevailing judicial and aca-demic accounts of many
election law issues. Consider the spate of fran-chise restrictions that states around the …

Competing logit models of the link between the racial composition of districts and party are
estimated and then analyzed for all state legislative elections held in the South from 1990 to …

This article explores the controversial 1996 success of three African American incumbents
(Sanford Bishop and Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and Corrine Brown of Florida) who lost …

For almost half a century, minority representation in America rested on two legal pillars. The
first, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), applies nationwide and prohibits practices that …

The issue of political participation has been central to American politics since the founding of
the United States. The Politics of Democratic Inclusion addresses the ways traditionally …

Redistricting cases offer a unique opportunity to test the effects of partisan favoritism in
judging and to investigate when partisanship might influence decision making distinctly from …

The nation-wide cycle of redistricting is the most consequential, repetitive decision-making
process sha** the nature of American democracy. Because the arrangement of the …

Over the last forty years, racial and ethnic minority groups have made tremendous strides in
American politics. The advances were, in large part, brought about by a series of significant …