The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10376013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Groarke (Manhattan College, corresponding author), Margaret M Groarke (Manhattan College) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 550-551 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1002/polq.12682 |
| OpenAlex | W2755596469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The preclearance requirement, the strongest weapon in the Voting Rights Act (VRA), was rendered useless by Shelby County v. Holder in 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court determined that Section 4, which provides the formula for deciding which states are covered by Section 5, was no longer constitutional. This book explains how the Voting Rights Act became vulnerable to attack and explores possibilities for restoring the preclearance regime or other new voting rights legislation. As in their earlier book, The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South (2016), authors Charles S. Bullock III and Ronald Keith Gaddie, this time joined by Justin J. Wert, argue that the Voting Rights Act has been extremely successful. Using primarily U.S. Census Bureau data from 2012, they show the progress made by covered states since 1965—increased voter registration and turnout among African Americans and steady increases in the numbers of black elected officials in covered states, especially in those that have been covered the longest
Disapproval voting · Law and economics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Straight-ticket voting · Supreme court · Supreme Court Decisions · Turnout · Voter registration · Voting · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |