Race, Class, and Precinct Quality in American Cities

by Matt Barreto and David L. Leal

Nearly forty years after passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a fundamental question remains unanswered: although all citizens have an equal right to the ballot, do all citizens enjoy equal access to the ballot box? More specifically, are voting precincts in predominantly low-income and non-white neighborhoods less visible, less stable, harder to find, and more difficult to navigate than are precincts in high-income and predominantly white neighborhoods?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461416310
• ISBN13: 9781461416319
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 190 Pages