The Appearance of Equality : Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and the Supreme Court
Christophe M. Burke
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 1999.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (222 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: THE EVOLVING DISCOURSE ON FAIR REPRESENTATION; CHAPTER 1: ASSESSING REPRESENTATION; CHAPTER 2: RHETORIC AND THE APPEARANCES OF REPRESENTATION; CHAPTER 3: CASE ANALYSES OF FAIR REPRESENTATION ANTE SHAW v. RENO; CHAPTER 4: SHAW v. RENO: WHAT IT MEANS, DOES NOT MEAN, AND WHY; CHAPTER 5: LIBERALISM, COMMUNITARIANISM, AND FAIR REPRESENTATION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. - An examination of the language of law in the area of political representation, this book considers the development and recognition of group claims brought pursuant to the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause in Supreme Court opinions. In his analysis, Burke highlights the different, discursive strategies, broadly identified as liberal and communitarian, used by the Supreme Court to justify the outcomes of various cases, and he argues that no particular strategy of justification is inherently politically conservative or liberal and that no conception of political representation is
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| ISBN | 0313307512
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