The future of the voting rights act / David L. Epstein ... [and others], editors.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Political competition and the modern VRA / Richard H. Pildes -- The law of preclearance : enforcing section 5 / Peyton McCrary, Christopher Seaman, Richard Valelly -- Rethinking section 5 / Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer -- Trends in minority representation, 1974 to 2000 / David L. Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran -- Congressional power to renew preclearance provisions / Richard L. Hasen -- Does section 5 of the Voting Rights Act still work? / Samuel Issacharoff -- Voting Rights Act enforcement : navigating between high and low expectations / Bruce E. Cain and Karin MacDonald -- Reshaping the tub : the limits of the VRA for Latino electoral politics / Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis DeSipio -- Expanding coverage of section five in Indian country / Laughlin McDonald -- Election administration and voting rights / Stephen Ansolabehere -- Options and strategies for renewal of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act / Nathaniel Persily -- The coverage curve : identifying states at the bottom of the class / Spencer Overton -- Who's covered? coverage formula and bailout / Michael P. McDonald -- A third way : section 5 and the opt-in approach / Heather K. Gerken -- Extending section 5 of the Voting Rights Act : the complex interaction between law and politics / Bernard Grofman and Thomas Brunell.