The Effect of Majority-Minority Districts on African-American Representation in the South
Since the creation of a number of majority-minority districts in the early 1990s, electoral representation for minorities has been a popular topic for political scientists and civil rights lawyers to debate. One of the key arguments centers around the question of whether majority-minority districts provide substantive representation to the groups they are trying to assist. In this paper, I argue that substantive representation for African-Americans, as measured by the amount of the national budget allocated for Training and Employment and Food and Nutrition, has decreased since the 1990 redistricting.
School:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department:
Political Science
Research Advisor:
Andrea Campbell
Department of Research Advisor:
Political Science
Year of Publication:
2003