United States Electoral Systems

Their Impact on Women and Minorities
Herausgeber: Rule, Wilma; Zimmerman, Joseph Francis

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the only full-length study to examine how different electoral systems impact the election of women and minorities to public office in the United States. Rule and Zimmerman have brought together leading scholars to show how different systems affect local, state, and national elections. Important demographic changes, new opportunities, and formidable problems are underscored in analyses of the effects of, among many other things, cumulative voting, judicial election systems, multimember and single-member districts, and reapportionment. This study is unusual in combining an overall analysis of electoral systems and case material with proposals for making government more representative, inclusive, and responsive. Criteria are provided for evaluating the equity of electoral systems. The election of women and minorities to Congress is reviewed carefully, and options for increasing this direct representation of minorities and women are considered. Case studies describe legislative elections in several states. In-depth studies deal with local elections, cumulative and limited voting systems, alternative judicial electoral systems, and proportional representation. Academics and professionals who study political parties and electoral systems, minority politics, and women's studies will find this work to be especially intriguing and important.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780275942403
• ISBN-10: 0275942406
• Artikelnr.: 21293452

Autorenporträt

WILMA RULE is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is secretary-treasurer of the Section on Representation and Electoral Systems of the American Political Science Association. Her major research interests are the legislative recruitment of Anglo and minority women and the effect that electoral systems have on their political opportunities. She has written at length on these subjects for scholarly journals. JOSEPH F. ZIMMERMAN is Professor of Political Science in the Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany. He is a former chair of the Section on Representation and Electoral Systems of the American Political Science Association. His books include Federal Preemption: The Silent Revolution (1991), Participatory Democracy: Populism Revived (Praeger, 1986), and State-Local Relations: A Partnership Approach (1983).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Fair Representation for Minorities and Women by Joseph
F. Zimmerman Sending Women and Minorities to Congress Electing Minorities
and Women to Congress by Georgia A. Persons Preconditions for Black and
Hispanic Congressional Success by Bernard Hoffman and Lisa Handley Anglo
and Minority Women's Underrepresentation in Congress: Is the Electoral
System the Culprit? by Wilma Rule and Pippa Morris Electing State
Legislators and Judges Multimember Legislative Districts: Minority and
Anglo Women's and Men's Recruitment Opportunity by Wilma Rule Barriers to
Representing Women and Blacks in Pennsylvania: The Impacts of Demography,
Culture, and Structure by Sandra A. Featherman Florida: The Big Election
Shakeup of 1982 by Anita Pritchard Creative Multimember Redistricting and
Representation of Women and Minorities in the Maryland Legislature by M.
Margaret Conway The Effect of the "Cutback" on Representation of Women and
Minorities in the Illinois General Assembly by David H. Everson Patterns of
Legislative Opportunity in Arizona: Sex, Race and Ethnicity by Michele A.
Saint-Germain Alternative Judicial Election Systems: Solving the Minority
Vote Dilution Problem by Richard B. Engstrom Electing Local Leaders
Minority and Gender Representation in American County Legislatures: The
Effect of Election Systems by Victor DeSantis and Tari Renner The Impact of
At-Large Elections on the Representation of Minority Women by Susan Welch
and Rebekah Herrick Electing Women to City Council: A Focus on Small Cities
in Florida by Susan A. MacManus and Charles S. Bullock, III Cumulative
Voting and Limited Voting in Alabama by Edward Still Proportional
Representation on New York City Community School Boards by Leon Weaver and
Judith Baum Options for Increasing Representation for Minorities Enhancing
Representational Equity in Cities by Joseph F. Zimmerman Electoral Barriers
to Women by R. Darcy Select Bibliography Index