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Title Party lines : competition, partisanship, and congressional redistricting / Thomas E. Mann and Bruce E. Cain, editors
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 125 pages)
Contents From equality to fairness: the path of political reform since Baker v. Carr / Bruce E. Cain, Karin Mac Donald, Michael McDonald -- The impact of redistricting on candidate emergence / L. Sandy Maisel, Cherie D. Maestas, Walter J. Stone -- Pushbutton gerrymanders? How computing has changed redistricting / Micah Altman, Karin Mac Donald, Michael McDonald -- Forty years in the political thicket: judicial review of the redistricting process since Reynolds V. Sims / Nathaniel Persily -- Redistricting reform: What is desirable? Possible? / Thomas E. Mann
Summary "Details the legal and political history of redistricting since the inception of one person-one vote, documenting its impact on competition, polarization, and partisan fairness, and analyzes options for reform"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. Congress. House -- Election districts
SUBJECT United States. Congress. House fast
USA Congress gnd
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Election districts -- United States
Apportionment (Election law) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
Apportionment (Election law)
Election districts
Parteiensystem
Wahlkreis
Wahlkreiseinteilung
Bundesstaaten
Mandatsverteilung
Festlegung
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mann, Thomas E
Cain, Bruce E.
ISBN 9780815797920
0815797923
1280813350
9781280813351
081575468X
9780815754688
0815705298
9780815705291
9786610813353
6610813353