Tyson D. King-Meadows

When the Letter Betrays the Spirit

Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Congressional Authority and Voting Rights Enforcement A Retrospective and Prospective Look at the Voting Rights Act Chapter 1: Why Discretion Matters in Voting Rights Enforcement Chapter 2: Obama's Inheritance: The Johnson Framework, the VRA, and Faith in Federal Power The Challenge to Congressional Authority Chapter 3: Misdirection: Political Theatre and the 2006 Reauthorization of Section 5 Chapter 4: Partisan Spoils of Office: A post-Shaw Judicial Philosophy of Civic Literacy Chapter 5: Is "Bull Connor" Dead? Contemporary Public Opinion on Voting Rights Policy Chapter 6: A Battle of Principals: Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush Administration A Systems Theory Approach to Enforcement Chapter 7: The Macro-Political Context Shaping Enfranchisement, 2000-2008 Conclusion: Regulating Discretion and the Challenge of Post-Racial Politics Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Selected Bibliography

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780739149133
• ISBN-10: 073914913X
• Artikelnr.: 33614747

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By Tyson D. King-Meadows

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Congressional
Authority and Voting Rights Enforcement A Retrospective and Prospective
Look at the Voting Rights Act Chapter 1: Why Discretion Matters in Voting
Rights Enforcement Chapter 2: Obama's Inheritance: The Johnson Framework,
the VRA, and Faith in Federal Power The Challenge to Congressional
Authority Chapter 3: Misdirection: Political Theatre and the 2006
Reauthorization of Section 5 Chapter 4: Partisan Spoils of Office: A
post-Shaw Judicial Philosophy of Civic Literacy Chapter 5: Is "Bull Connor"
Dead? Contemporary Public Opinion on Voting Rights Policy Chapter 6: A
Battle of Principals: Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush
Administration A Systems Theory Approach to Enforcement Chapter 7: The
Macro-Political Context Shaping Enfranchisement, 2000-2008 Conclusion:
Regulating Discretion and the Challenge of Post-Racial Politics Appendix 1
Appendix 2 Selected Bibliography