TY - BOOK ID - 77865581 TI - Race, ethnicity, and the politics of city redistricting PY - 2004 SN - 0791485498 142374019X 9781423740193 9780791459959 0791459950 0791459969 9780791459966 9780791485491 PB - Albany State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Hispanic American legislators. KW - African American legislators. KW - Gerrymandering KW - Apportionment (Election law) KW - Local elections KW - City council members KW - Legislators, Hispanic American KW - Legislators KW - Afro-American legislators KW - Legislators, African American KW - Gerrymander KW - Election districts KW - County elections KW - Elections, County KW - Elections, Local KW - Elections, Municipal KW - Municipal elections KW - Election law KW - Elections KW - Aldermen KW - City councillors KW - City councilmen KW - Council members, City KW - Councillors, City KW - Councilmen, City KW - Municipal officials and employees KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865581 AB - "Why do cities with similar minority populations vary greatly in the adoption of minority-opportunity districts and, by extension, differ in the number of elected Hispanic and black representatives? Through in-depth research of the districting processes of more than 100 cities, Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of City Redistricting provides the first nationwide study of minority-opportunity districts at the local level. Joshua G. Behr explores the motives of the players involved, including incumbent legislators, Department of Justice officials, and organized interests, while investigating the roles that segregation, federal oversight, litigation, partisan elections, and resource disparity, among others, play in the election of Hispanics and blacks. Behr's book documents - for both theorists and practitioners - the necessary conditions for enhancing minority-opportunity districts at the local level."--Jacket ER -