Political Gerrymandering and the Courts

by Grofman, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780875860923
• ISBN10: 0875860923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Agathon Pr

Summary

"Specialists in election law and politics will want to buy and absorb this book. I know of no better survey of the meaning and intention of the Court in Bandemer and the constitutional terrain it has shaped for redistricting in the 90s." - The Law and Politics Review

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
About the Authors	p. xi
About the Editor	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Unresolved Issues in Partisan Gerrymandering LItigation	p. 3
The Unfinished Reapportionment Revolution	p. 11
What Does Bandemer Mean?	p. 27
Toward A Coherent Theory of Gerrymandering: Bandemer and Thornburg	p. 29
Notes	p. 58
Notes	p. 62
Bandemer's Gap: Gerrymandering and Equal Protection	p. 64
Addendum: Response to Grofman	p. 97
Addendum: Response to Grofman	p. 103
Perspectives on Davis V. Bandemer: VIews of the Practitioner, Theorist, and Reformer	p. 117
Notes	p. 141
How to Measure Partisan Gerrymandering	p. 143
Establishing A Statewide Electoral Effects Baseline	p. 145
Notes	p. 166
The Swing Ratio as A Measure of Partisan Gerrymandering	p. 171
Detecting Gerrymandering	p. 178
Notes	p. 202
The "Totality of Circumstances" Approach	p. 203
A Geographer's Perspective	p. 212
Partisan Gerrymandering: A Political Problem Without Judicial Solution	p. 240
Applications: Indiana	p. 253
Compactness and the 1980s Districts in the Indiana State House: Evidence of Political Gerrymandering?	p. 255
Majority-Win Percentages: An Approach to the Votes-Seats Relationship in Light of Davis V. Bandemer	p. 266
Applications: California	p. 279
Comparing the Compactness of California Congressional Districts Under Three Different Plans: 1980, 1982, and 1984	p. 281
Determining the Predictability of Partisan Voting Patterns in California Elections, 1978-1984	p. 289
Lessons from the 1973 California Masters' Plan	p. 296
References/Author Index	p. 318
References	p. 319
Index	p. 331
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