Sixty years of the Voting Rights Act: progress and pitfalls

Abstract We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals that the VRA was meant...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Oxford review of economic policy 2024-11, Vol.40 (3), p.486-497
Hauptverfasser:	Bernini, Andrea, Facchini, Giovanni, Tabellini, Marco, Testa, Cecilia
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
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