CONCLUSION: A LINGERING DOUBT 1584 APPENDIX A: THE PREVALENCE OF DIRECT
DEMOCRACY 1587 APPENDIX B: ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY OF STATE JUDGES …

Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the
civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi …

Civil rights litigation often concerns the causal effect of some characteristic on decisions
made by a governmental or socioeconomic actor An analyst may be interested, for example …

THORNBURG v. GINGLES 478 US 30 (1986) THORNBURG, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
NORTH CAROLINA, ET AL. v. GINGLES ET AL. No. 83-1968. Supreme Court of United States. …

The authors use the 1993 municipal election in Atlanta, Georgia, and a special election to fill
two vacancies on the Fulton County (Georgia) Commission to test ballot-confusion, saliency …

Political scientists have devoted an enormous amount of attention to the various correlates
of voter turnout in the United States. Among the most venerable of generalizations to result …

JENKINS v. RED CLAY CONSOL. SCHOOL DIST. BD. OF EDUC. 4 F.3d 1103 (1993) Alden
JENKINS; Harlan Roberts; Gwendolyn Neal, v. RED CLAY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL …

This volume is motivated by three concerns. First is the belief that the issue of political
gerrymander will play a significant (although far from dominant) role in redistricting litigation …

Recent developments in law and in quantitative methods have combined to place greater
emphasis on coherent and accurate techniques of drawing inferences about racial voting …

LEWIS v. ALAMANCE COUNTY, NC 99 F.3d 600 (1996) Ernestine LEWIS; Sylvester J.
Lewis, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Minnetta E. Hill, Plaintiff, v. ALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH …