Richard L Engstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Engstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Engstrom |
| SIGNATURE | ENGSTROM R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Introduction to the Mini Symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering
Partisan Gerrymandering: Weeds in the Political Thicket
Objective To highlight the extent of the partisan gerrymandering problem in the United States. Methods Bring both original and secondary sources to bear on the problem of partisan gerrymandering, through the examination of election results under them, and federal and state court reactions to them. Results Evidence shows that gerrymandering in seven states accounted for the Republican Party's manufactured majority in the U.S. House of Representati…
Shelby County v. Holder and the gutting of federal preclearance of election law changes
The preclearance provision of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was rendered ineffective by the United States Supreme Court in 2013 in Shelby County, AL v. Holder. This provision required federal review of changes in the election policies and practices of state and local governments with particularly bad histories of racial discrimination in their electoral processes. This essay identifies the crucial prophylactic role the provision played in pr…
The Political Scientist as Expert Witness
Political scientists serve in courtrooms as expert witnesses on many topics related to their professional training: elections, same-sex marriages, employer sanctions for hiring undocumented aliens, school desegregation, political asylum requests, property rights, and racial profiling, among many others. It is not by chance that we—the authors—have chosen to testify as experts in cases concerning elections (see also Cain 1999). Election-related ca…
The majority vote rule and runoff primaries in the United States
Real choices, new voices: How proportional representation elections could revitalize American democracy
Douglas J. Amy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 2nd ed. $60.00 hbk, $22.50 pbk, 329pp., ISBN 0 231 12548 8 hbk, ISBN 0 231 12549 6 pbk
The Post-2000 Round of Redistricting: An Entangled Thicket within the Federal System
A new round of revisions in the geographical districts used to elect federal, state, and local legislators in the United States has followed the 2000 census of population. While legislators themselves typically have the initial responsibility to perform this frequently contentious task, courts play an active supervisory role as well. This article reviews how United States Supreme Court decisions concerning the post-1990 round of redistricting hav…
A right to representation: Proportional election systems for the twenty‐first century
Kathleen L. Barber. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xvi + 211pp., $55.00 hbk, $21.95 pbk; ISBN 0 8142 0854 1, 0 8142 5058 0
Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction . J. Morgan Kousser
Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990
The Voting Rights Act: Disfranchisement, Dilution, and Alternative Election Systems
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) (79 Stat. 667) is widely regarded as the most effective piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the United States. Adopted initially in 1965 to protect the voting rights of African Americans, it was expanded in 1975 to protect the voting rights of specified language minorities: Hispanice, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, and Asian Americans. A number of important changes in American politics can be traced direct…
Enhancing' factors in at-large plurality and majority systems: A reconsideration
Proportional representation considered in Cincinnati
Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences
C UMULATIVE voting was used to elect members of a local governing body in the United States for the first time this century when, in July of 1987, The City of Alamogordo, New Mexico employed that voting system to elect part of its city council. This was the first use of the system in any public election in this country since the State of Illinois, in 1980, adopted a single-member districting arrangement to elect the lower chamber of its state leg…
Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences
Richard L. Cole, Delbert A. Taebel, Richard L. Engstrom, Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), pp. 191-199
Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954-1970
Cincinnati's 1988 proportional representation initiative
Race, Referendums, and Roll-Off
District magnitudes and the election of women to the Irish Dáil
Repairing the Crack in New Orleans' Black Vote: VRA's Results Test Nullifies “Gerryduck”
In 1982, Section 2 of the U.S. Voting Rights Act was amended to allow plaintiffs to prevail in voting rights litigation if they demonstrate that a challenged law or practice has a discriminatory result. One of the first applications of this new statutory provision invalidated a congressional districting plan for the New Orleans metropolitan area, a plan that had divided the city's black population virtually in half. This article reviews both the …
The Impact of the 1980 Supplementary Election on Nationalist China's Legislative Yuan
Research Article| April 01 1984 The Impact of the 1980 Supplementary Election on Nationalist China's Legislative Yuan Richard L. Engstrom, Richard L. Engstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Chu Chi-hung Chu Chi-hung Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1955) 24 (4): 447–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644337 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures …
The Underrepresentation of Blacks on City Councils: Comparing the Structural and Socioeconomic Explanations for South/Non-South Differences
The more extensive use of at-large elections and the greater disparity in politically relevant socioeconomic resources each have been cited as the primary reason why blacks are underrepresented more severely on city councils in the South than on those outside the South. These two explanations for the regional difference in black councilmanic representation are compared through a design which treats electoral arrangements and resource disparities …
The Election of Blacks to City Councils: Clarifying the Impact of Electoral Arrangements on the Seats/Population Relationship
The notion that at-large elections for city council seats are discriminatory toward blacks has recently been attacked as empirically invalid. Recent studies have reached conflicting conclusions as to whether electoral arrangements or socioeconomic factors are the major influence on how proportionately blacks are represented. This article addresses this issue, using a regression-based analysis in which proportionality is treated as a relationship …
Lawyer-Legislators and Support for State Legislative Reform
Spatial Distribution of Partisan Support and the Seats/Votes Relationship
How a party's votes are converted into legislative seats in a territorial districtplurality election system is partly a function of the spatial distribution of that party's electoral support. To assess the impact of residential patterns on the seats/votes relationship, fifty elections were simulated in which party strength and dispersion varied. In each simulation the same unbiased districting plan was utilized. After accounting for the impact of…
The Election of Blacks to City Councils: Clarifying the Impact of Electoral Arrangements on the Seats/Population Relationship
The notion that at-large elections for city council seats are discriminatory toward blacks has recently been attacked as empirically invalid. Recent studies have reached conflicting conclusions as to whether electoral arrangements or socioeconomic factors are the major influence on how proportionately blacks are represented. This article addresses this issue, using a regression-based analysis in which proportionality is treated as a relationship …
District magnitudes and the election of women to the Irish Dáil
Race, Referendums, and Roll-Off
The Underrepresentation of Blacks on City Councils: Comparing the Structural and Socioeconomic Explanations for South/Non-South Differences
The more extensive use of at-large elections and the greater disparity in politically relevant socioeconomic resources each have been cited as the primary reason why blacks are underrepresented more severely on city councils in the South than on those outside the South. These two explanations for the regional difference in black councilmanic representation are compared through a design which treats electoral arrangements and resource disparities …
Pruning Thorns from the Thicket: An Empirical Test of the Existence of Racial Gerrymandering
A glaring weakness in the judiciary's performance in the area of representational districting has been the failure to effectively confront the problem of racial gerrymandering. The absence of objective standards through which gerrymandering can be identified is undoubtedly a major reason for the judiciary's unresponsive behavior on this issue. This study presents the conceptual basis for and an exemplary application of an empirical procedure thro…
Spatial Distribution of Partisan Support and the Seats/Votes Relationship
How a party's votes are converted into legislative seats in a territorial districtplurality election system is partly a function of the spatial distribution of that party's electoral support. To assess the impact of residential patterns on the seats/votes relationship, fifty elections were simulated in which party strength and dispersion varied. In each simulation the same unbiased districting plan was utilized. After accounting for the impact of…
The majority vote rule and runoff primaries in the United States
Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences
Richard L. Cole, Delbert A. Taebel, Richard L. Engstrom, Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), pp. 191-199
Lawyer-Legislators and Support for State Legislative Reform
Race and Compliance: Differential Political Socialization
A right to representation: Proportional election systems for the twenty‐first century
Kathleen L. Barber. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xvi + 211pp., $55.00 hbk, $21.95 pbk; ISBN 0 8142 0854 1, 0 8142 5058 0
Enhancing' factors in at-large plurality and majority systems: A reconsideration
Cincinnati's 1988 proportional representation initiative
Expectations and Images: A Note on Diffuse Support for Legal Institutions
There has recently been a growing concern within political science with the public's support for governmental institutions. To date, the research in the judicial realm — focusing extensively on the United States Supreme Court — has measured support primarily in terms of the public's evaluation of court outputs and has attempted to explain support through variables believed to function as important bases or references for these evaluations, e.g., …
Partisan Gerrymandering: Weeds in the Political Thicket
Objective To highlight the extent of the partisan gerrymandering problem in the United States. Methods Bring both original and secondary sources to bear on the problem of partisan gerrymandering, through the examination of election results under them, and federal and state court reactions to them. Results Evidence shows that gerrymandering in seven states accounted for the Republican Party's manufactured majority in the U.S. House of Representati…
The Post-2000 Round of Redistricting: An Entangled Thicket within the Federal System
A new round of revisions in the geographical districts used to elect federal, state, and local legislators in the United States has followed the 2000 census of population. While legislators themselves typically have the initial responsibility to perform this frequently contentious task, courts play an active supervisory role as well. This article reviews how United States Supreme Court decisions concerning the post-1990 round of redistricting hav…
Shelby County v. Holder and the gutting of federal preclearance of election law changes
The preclearance provision of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was rendered ineffective by the United States Supreme Court in 2013 in Shelby County, AL v. Holder. This provision required federal review of changes in the election policies and practices of state and local governments with particularly bad histories of racial discrimination in their electoral processes. This essay identifies the crucial prophylactic role the provision played in pr…
The Political Scientist as Expert Witness
Political scientists serve in courtrooms as expert witnesses on many topics related to their professional training: elections, same-sex marriages, employer sanctions for hiring undocumented aliens, school desegregation, political asylum requests, property rights, and racial profiling, among many others. It is not by chance that we—the authors—have chosen to testify as experts in cases concerning elections (see also Cain 1999). Election-related ca…
Real choices, new voices: How proportional representation elections could revitalize American democracy
Douglas J. Amy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 2nd ed. $60.00 hbk, $22.50 pbk, 329pp., ISBN 0 231 12548 8 hbk, ISBN 0 231 12549 6 pbk
The Voting Rights Act: Disfranchisement, Dilution, and Alternative Election Systems
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) (79 Stat. 667) is widely regarded as the most effective piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the United States. Adopted initially in 1965 to protect the voting rights of African Americans, it was expanded in 1975 to protect the voting rights of specified language minorities: Hispanice, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, and Asian Americans. A number of important changes in American politics can be traced direct…
Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences
C UMULATIVE voting was used to elect members of a local governing body in the United States for the first time this century when, in July of 1987, The City of Alamogordo, New Mexico employed that voting system to elect part of its city council. This was the first use of the system in any public election in this country since the State of Illinois, in 1980, adopted a single-member districting arrangement to elect the lower chamber of its state leg…
Repairing the Crack in New Orleans' Black Vote: VRA's Results Test Nullifies “Gerryduck”
In 1982, Section 2 of the U.S. Voting Rights Act was amended to allow plaintiffs to prevail in voting rights litigation if they demonstrate that a challenged law or practice has a discriminatory result. One of the first applications of this new statutory provision invalidated a congressional districting plan for the New Orleans metropolitan area, a plan that had divided the city's black population virtually in half. This article reviews both the …
Race and Compliance: Differential Political Socialization
Political Ambitions and the Prosecutorial Office
The City in Communist China. John Wilson Lewis
Expectations and Images: A Note on Diffuse Support for Legal Institutions
There has recently been a growing concern within political science with the public's support for governmental institutions. To date, the research in the judicial realm — focusing extensively on the United States Supreme Court — has measured support primarily in terms of the public's evaluation of court outputs and has attempted to explain support through variables believed to function as important bases or references for these evaluations, e.g., …
Life-Style and Fringe Attitudes Toward the Political Integration of Urban Governments: A Comparison of Survey Findings
State Centralization versus Home Rule: A Note on Ambition Theory's Powers Proposition
Richard L. Engstrom, Patrick F. O'Connor, State Centralization versus Home Rule: A Note on Ambition Theory's Powers Proposition, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 1977), pp. 288-294
State Centralization Versus Home Rule: A Note On Ambition Theory's Powers Proposition
HE CENTRAL thesis of the theory of politics, as stated by Joseph Schlesinger, is that politician's behavior is a response to his office goals.' Given both the simplicity and generality of this thesis, it understandably has been a subject of considerable attention from political scientists. The major proposition deduced from it a politically ambitious individual will behave in a manner designed to improve his or her chances of satisfying that ambi…
Pruning Thorns from the Thicket: An Empirical Test of the Existence of Racial Gerrymandering
A glaring weakness in the judiciary's performance in the area of representational districting has been the failure to effectively confront the problem of racial gerrymandering. The absence of objective standards through which gerrymandering can be identified is undoubtedly a major reason for the judiciary's unresponsive behavior on this issue. This study presents the conceptual basis for and an exemplary application of an empirical procedure thro…
Restructuring the Regime: Support for Change within the Louisiana Constitutional Convention
Lawyer-Legislators and Support for State Legislative Reform
Spatial Distribution of Partisan Support and the Seats/Votes Relationship
How a party's votes are converted into legislative seats in a territorial districtplurality election system is partly a function of the spatial distribution of that party's electoral support. To assess the impact of residential patterns on the seats/votes relationship, fifty elections were simulated in which party strength and dispersion varied. In each simulation the same unbiased districting plan was utilized. After accounting for the impact of…
The Election of Blacks to City Councils: Clarifying the Impact of Electoral Arrangements on the Seats/Population Relationship
The notion that at-large elections for city council seats are discriminatory toward blacks has recently been attacked as empirically invalid. Recent studies have reached conflicting conclusions as to whether electoral arrangements or socioeconomic factors are the major influence on how proportionately blacks are represented. This article addresses this issue, using a regression-based analysis in which proportionality is treated as a relationship …
The Underrepresentation of Blacks on City Councils: Comparing the Structural and Socioeconomic Explanations for South/Non-South Differences
The more extensive use of at-large elections and the greater disparity in politically relevant socioeconomic resources each have been cited as the primary reason why blacks are underrepresented more severely on city councils in the South than on those outside the South. These two explanations for the regional difference in black councilmanic representation are compared through a design which treats electoral arrangements and resource disparities …
The Impact of the 1980 Supplementary Election on Nationalist China's Legislative Yuan
Research Article| April 01 1984 The Impact of the 1980 Supplementary Election on Nationalist China's Legislative Yuan Richard L. Engstrom, Richard L. Engstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Chu Chi-hung Chu Chi-hung Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1955) 24 (4): 447–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644337 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures …
Repairing the Crack in New Orleans' Black Vote: VRA's Results Test Nullifies “Gerryduck”
In 1982, Section 2 of the U.S. Voting Rights Act was amended to allow plaintiffs to prevail in voting rights litigation if they demonstrate that a challenged law or practice has a discriminatory result. One of the first applications of this new statutory provision invalidated a congressional districting plan for the New Orleans metropolitan area, a plan that had divided the city's black population virtually in half. This article reviews both the …
Race, Referendums, and Roll-Off
District magnitudes and the election of women to the Irish Dáil
Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences
C UMULATIVE voting was used to elect members of a local governing body in the United States for the first time this century when, in July of 1987, The City of Alamogordo, New Mexico employed that voting system to elect part of its city council. This was the first use of the system in any public election in this country since the State of Illinois, in 1980, adopted a single-member districting arrangement to elect the lower chamber of its state leg…
Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences
Richard L. Cole, Delbert A. Taebel, Richard L. Engstrom, Cumulative Voting in a Municipal Election: A Note on Voter Reactions and Electoral Consequences, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), pp. 191-199
Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954-1970
Cincinnati's 1988 proportional representation initiative
Proportional representation considered in Cincinnati
Enhancing' factors in at-large plurality and majority systems: A reconsideration
Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990
The Voting Rights Act: Disfranchisement, Dilution, and Alternative Election Systems
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) (79 Stat. 667) is widely regarded as the most effective piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the United States. Adopted initially in 1965 to protect the voting rights of African Americans, it was expanded in 1975 to protect the voting rights of specified language minorities: Hispanice, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, and Asian Americans. A number of important changes in American politics can be traced direct…
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