Smith Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?

The Twenty-First Century's Restrictive New Voting Laws and Their Impact
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8684-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Michael A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction
Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway

2. Black Voting Rights 1865–2016: Two Reconstructions and Four Mississippi Plans
Russell Brooker

3. The Impact of Voter ID Laws on County Turnout in the 2016 Presidential Election
Ryan E. Voris

4. Backlash! Do Restrictive Voting Laws Mobilize Their Opponents?
Michael A. Smith

5. Using Cross-Sectional, Time Series, and Border Analysis to Identify the Impact of Restrictive Voting Laws
Bekah Selby and Michael A. Smith

6. Contemporary Effects of Felony Disenfranchisement upon Election Turnout and Partisan Vote Share
Linda M. Trautman and Bekah Selby

7. Using Mathematics to Understand How Gerrymandering Affects Partisan Voting Power
Brian Hollenbeck and Deborah G. Hann

8. Civil Rights Groups Respond
Kevin Anderson

Conclusion
Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway

Afterword on the 2020 Election
Michael A. Smith

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael A. Smith is Professor of Political Science and Chair of Social Sciences, Sociology, and Criminology at Emporia State University. He is the author of several books, including Low Taxes and Small Government: Sam Brownback's Great Experiment in Kansas (with Robert J. Grover and Rob Catlett).