caa a22 4500 388079665 CHVBK 20180307125210.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585770 doi S0003055400216717 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585770 A Social Science Approach to Race, Redistricting, and Representation [Elektronische Daten] In his critique of our earlier paper on majority-minority voting districts, David Lublin suggests that our conclusions with respect to the election of minorities to office are flawed, and that we incorrectly estimate optimal districting strategies for the substantive representation of minority interests in Congress. Subjecting these claims to direct empirical examination, we find that our previous results are unaltered by the inclusion of Latino voters in our estimates of equal opportunity, and that incumbency advantage cannot fully explain the recent victories of minority candidates in the South. Neither do the critiques of our results regarding substantive representation stand up to systematic analysis: Evidence at both the state level and over time confirm our conclusion that districts on the order of 45% black voting age population maximize the expected number of votes for minority-supported legislation. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Epstein David Columbia University O'Halloran Sharyn Columbia University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 187-191 0003-0554 93:1<187 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585770 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585770 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Epstein David Columbia University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Halloran Sharyn Columbia University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 187-191 0003-0554 93:1<187 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge