{"product_id":"stolen-representation-by-michael-p-olson-9781009700221","title":"Stolen Representation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the decades after Reconstruction, African Americans were systematically removed from the electorate in the American South using tools such as poll taxes and literacy tests. \u003cem\u003eStolen Representation\u003c\/em\u003e draws on significant amounts of new historical data to explore how these tools of Black disfranchisement shaped state legislative politics in the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book draws on contemporary scholarship to develop theoretical arguments for how disfranchisement plausibly affected roll-call voting, committee assignments, and policymaking activity in southern state legislatures, and uses rich data on each of these areas to demonstrate disfranchisement's profound effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy analysing state legislative data and drawing on historical sources to help characterise the nature of politics in each state in the period around disfranchisement, Olson offers a nuanced, context-driven exploration of disfranchisement's effects, making a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between racial discrimination at the ballot box and public policymaking in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934249730284,"sku":"9781009700221","price":278.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781009700221-stolen-representation.jpg?v=1783907740","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/stolen-representation-by-michael-p-olson-9781009700221","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}