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Legislative Apportionment - subdivision of a political body (e.g., a state or province) for the purpose of electing legislative representatives. In the United States, the Constitution requires that Congressional representatives be elected on the basis of population. State legislatures, not bound by the constitutional strictures, were apportioned according to considerations including population


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    Voting Rights and Redistricting in the United States » Read Now

    by Mark E. Rush. 316 pgs.

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    This up-to-date collection of essays addresses key elements of the law and politics of voting rights: the Supreme Court's jurisprudence, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, and the opportunities for enhanced minority representation posed by alternative electoral systems.
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    The Politics of Reapportionment » Read Now

    by Malcolm E. Jewell. 340 pgs.

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    The Appearance of Equality: Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and the Supreme Court » Read Now

    by Christopher M. Burke. 212 pgs.

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    An examination of the language of law in the area of political representation, this book considers the development and recognition of group claims brought pursuant to the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause in Supreme Court opinions. In his analysis, Burke highlights the different...
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    Handbook of United States Election Laws and Practices: Political Rights (Chap. 4 "The Right to Fair and Effective Representation") » Read Now

    by Alexander J. Bott. 565 pgs.

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    "This clearly written handbook brings together a great deal of information about fundamental political rights in this country and will be of interest well beyond the legal community." Reference Books Bulletin
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    Principled Limitations on Racial and Partisan Redistricting, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now

    by Richard H. Pildes. 57 pgs.

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    ...ferreting out legislative intent.(10...of racial redistricting, political...contemporary racial redistricting. D. Myth...in typical legislative bodies compared...summarily...
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    Race and Redistricting in the 1990s » Read Now

    by Bernard Grofman. 412 pgs.

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    ...in Section III is on legislative redistricting in Virginia. Its author...different alternative to legislative-based redistricting. Alan Gartner served...run. Their attack...
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    What's a Federalist to Do? The Impending Clash between Textualism and Federalism in State Congressional Redistricting Suits under Article I, Section 4, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now

    by C. Bryan Wilson. 32 pgs.

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    ...In evaluating state legislative redistricting plans, federal judges...influence federal and state legislative redistricting next year."); Kathy Kiely...control of the state...
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    Easing the Spring: Strict Scrutiny and Affirmative Action after the Redistricting Cases: 2001 Cutler Lecture, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now

    by Pamela S. Karlan. 35 pgs.

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    ...has legs beyond redistricting. II. FROM LEGISLATIVE BODIES TO STUDENT...challenging statewide legislative and congressional redistricting); 42 U.S.C. section...upholding a...
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    The Redistricting Cases: Original Mistakes and Current Consequences, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy » Read Now

    by Michael W. McConnell. 16 pgs.

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    ...The redistricting cases: original mistakes...vote,"(1) meaning that legislative districts within each...better solution. I. THE REDISTRICTING PROBLEM BEFORE BAKER...courts...
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    State and Local Governments (Chap. 14 "Legislative Behavior and Apportionment") » Read Now

    by Charles R. Adrian. 607 pgs.

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    ...important advances in understanding state legislative behavior and the large amount of valuable...Bureaucracy 318 13 Legislative Organization and Functions 332 14...
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    Representation in Crisis: The Constitution, Interest Groups, and Political Parties (Chap. 7 "The Law of Reapportionment: Party-Poor Theories of Representation") » Read Now

    by David K. Ryden. 310 pgs.

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    ...Tennessees state legislative districts...apportionment and redistricting questions were...apportionment and redistricting. In 1964...apportionment of state legislative...
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    Demographics: A Casebook for Business and Government (Chap. 3 "Empowered or Disadvantaged? Applications of Demographic Analysis to Political Redistricting" and Chap. 4 "The Use of Intercensal Population Estimates in Political Redistricting") » Read Now

    by Hallie J. Kintner, Thomas W. Merrick, Peter A. Morrison, Paul R. Voss. 361 pgs.

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    This is a collection of 20 case studies prepared by a group of deomgraphers; professors of economics, sociology, population studies, business, and marketing; and research analysts interested in understanding a world of chanding demographics. Because the study of demography is becoming increasingly...
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    Ten Secrets of Redistricting, in State Legislatures » Read Now

    by Steve Miller. 4 pgs.

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    ...Adopt a mission such as "draw a legislative redistricting plan according to constitutional...Mississippi during the 1990 round of redistricting and now is the chief of the...
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    The Redistricting Wars: The Republican Drive Represents a Power Grab Unprecedented in Scale and Timing, in The Nation » Read Now

    by Sasha Abramsky. 4 pgs.

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    ...The Redistricting Wars: The Republican Drive Represents...muscle through federal Congressional redistricting maps tailored to benefit itself...decennial tradition and...
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    The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South (Chap. 7 "The Redistricting Explanation") » Read Now

    by Joseph A. Aistrup. 302 pgs.

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    The 1994 elections represented a watershed year for southern Republicans. For the first time since Reconstruction, they gained control of a majority of national seats and governorships. Yet, despite these impressive gains, southern Republicans control only three of twenty-two state legislative...
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    Legislators, Law, and Public Policy: Political Change in Mississippi and the South (Chap. 4 "The Mississippi Legislature after Redistricting: Structural Continuities and Change" and Chap. 5 "The Mississippi Legislature after Redistricting: Voting Continuities, Ambivalence and Change") » Read Now

    by Mary DeLorse Coleman. 190 pgs.

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    This book evaluates Mississippi politics since the pivotal 1978 Connor v. Johnson decision, which replaced multi-member legislative districts with single-member districts. Coleman examines how, after Connor's arduous journey through the judicial system, the Mississippi legislature, formerly a...

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