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A new perspective on the 1958 congressional election and 14th amendment apportionment
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Abstract Some mid-20th century civil rights activists strongly advocated enforcement of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect voting rights, but all attempts to enforce it failed due to the difficulty of quantifying the amount of voting abridgment in each state. Using publicly available data it ... mehr
Some mid-20th century civil rights activists strongly advocated enforcement of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect voting rights, but all attempts to enforce it failed due to the difficulty of quantifying the amount of voting abridgment in each state. Using publicly available data it would have been possible to model voting abridgment and thus to reapportion congressional seats prior to the 1958 election. However, the results of a computer simulation suggest that the immediate effect of such reapportionment on civil rights reform would have been minimal.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wahlbeteiligung; Wahlsystem; Simulation; Verfassungsänderung; USA; Stimmrecht; Wahlforschung; Wahlrecht; Bürgerrecht; Wahl
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
fourteenth amendment; apportionment; nonlinear programming
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
22 S.
Status
Preprint; nicht begutachtet