Research Catalog

Title

The law of democracy : legal structure of the political process / by Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Richard H. Pildes.

Author

Issacharoff, Samuel

Publication

Westbury, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Karlan, Pamela S.
• Pildes, Richard H.

Description

xxix, 788 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

[The author's] examine an array of specific issues currently posing challenges to the practice of democratic politics in the United States: issues involving the individual right to vote, partisan and racial gerrymandering, the relationship of the state to political parties, campaign-finance reform, and the fair representation of minorities in democratic bodies ... If nothing else, [their] aim is to open the minds of readers to other ways of conceiving democratic institutions than those that are reflected in current arrangements. The wealth of issues makes it unlikely that any one-semester course will cover the entire book.-Pref.

Series Statement

University casebook series

Uniform Title

University casebook series.

Subject

• Democracy > United States
• Representative government and representation > United States
• Election law > United States > Cases
• United States > Politics and government

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the selection of democratic institutions -- Right to participate -- Reapportionment revolution -- Role of political parties -- Preclearance and the Voting Rights Act -- Majority rule and minority vote dilution: Constitutional and legislative approaches -- Racial vote dilution under the Voting Rights Act -- Redistricting and representation -- Money and politics -- Direct democracy -- Alternative democratic structures.

ISBN

1566624622 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97228473^

OCLC

• 37946530
• SCSB-10077824

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library