Description
Book SynopsisLegislators, lawyers, community organizers, political historians, and political scientists offer a complete history of Texas redistricting during the past century—and the repercussions still felt from the map battles of the 1960s.
Trade Review"Blending political reality with analytic rigor, this is an important contribution to redistricting scholarship." - Choice
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- Prologue: Scope and Methods
- Introduction. The Prequel: Unequal Representation (Gary A. Keith)
- Chapter 1. Entering the Thicket: 1965 (Gary A. Keith)
- Chapter 2. Legislating in the Thicket (Craig A. Washington)
- Chapter 3. Litigating Texas Redistricting: A Democratic Lawyer's Experience (David R. Richards)
- Chapter 4. Texas Redistricting: A Republican Lawyer's Perspective (J. D. Pauerstein)
- Chapter 5. The Voting Rights Organizers (José Garza)
- Chapter 6. Analyzing Redistricting Outcomes (Seth C. McKee and Mark J. McKenzie)
- Conclusion. Redistricting Redux: 2011 and Beyond (Gary A. Keith)
- Epilogue: Navigating the Brambles of the Political Thicket (Gary A. Keith)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
