The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on American Political Parties
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https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1993.14.0.565-575Abstract
The weakening of American political parties has been a theme featured in the writings of political scientists for the past several decades. This essay is addressed to developments which may further that decline-developments which have undermined the very purpose which American political parties are said to serve. I refer to legal standards which were established by the Supreme Court in 1964, and which have since been expanded by the Court and then incorporated into the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its amendment in 1982.References
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