Faulkner’s Voting Rights Act: The Sound and Fury of Section Five

Cumulative Voting and the Voting Rights Act

Following are excerpts from an amicus curiae prepared by Edward Still and Pamela Karlan for The Center for Voting and Democracy in Cane v. Worcester County, a voting rights case concerning county commission elections in Maryland described in Deborah Jeon's article. It is important to stress that the Center's position is that cumulative voting's advantages are even more valid for choice voting (...

Judging the Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights Act has radically altered the political status of minority voters and dramatically transformed the partisan structure of American politics. Given the political and racial salience of cases brought under the Act, it is surprising that the growing literature on the effects of a judge’s ideology and race on judicial decisionmaking has overlooked these cases. This Article provides...

A Third Way for the Voting Rights Act: Section 5 and the Opt-In Approach

Sound and Fury

We thank Deirdre McCloskey for e-mail discussions and, with Stephen Ziliak, for providing us with the individual scores from their 1980s survey and for the individual scores broken down by question for the 1990s survey. We thank Ryan Brady for research assistance and and the participants in the UC Davis Macroeconomics Workshop for valuable comments on an earlier draft.

Reimagining Democratic Inclusion: Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act

Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 359 I. Voting Rights Act, Section 2: Minority Voting Dilution and Protection of Communities of Common Interest ............................................................ 362 II. Democratic Inclusion and Demographic Diversity ..........................................