By Gary A. Keith
Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state’s congressional districts in an try and confirm equality in illustration. With a richly textured cultural textile, Texas usually stories redistricting battles which are heated sufficient to realize nationwide cognizance. accumulating various voices, together with legislators themselves, as well as attorneys, group organizers, political historians, and political scientists, Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks can provide a multidimensional photograph of the way redistricting works in Texas this day, and the way the method evolved.
In addition to editor Gary Keith’s old narrative, which emphasizes the aftermath of the Warren Court’s redistricting judgements, longtime litigators David Richards and J. D. Pauerstein describe the contentious strains drawn from the Seventies into the 2000s. Former nation legislator and congressman Craig Washington presents an insider’s view, whereas redistricting lawyer and grassroots organizer Jose Garza describes the repercussions for Mexican americans in Texas. Balancing those essays with a quantitative viewpoint, political scientists Seth McKee and Mark McKenzie learn the balloting facts for the 2000 decade to explain the results of redistricting. the result's a well timed travel that offers up to date context, quite at the function of the balloting Rights Act within the twenty-first century. From area people engagement to the halls of the Capitol, this is often the definitive portrait of redistricting and its repercussions for all Texans.
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