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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345133803321

Autore

Buchman Jeremy

Titolo

Drawing lines in quicksand : courts, legislatures, & redistricting / / Jeremy Buchman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Peter Lang, c2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 268 p. )

Collana

Teaching texts in law and politics Drawing lines in quicksand

Teaching texts in law and politics ; ; v. 34

Disciplina

342.73/053

Soggetti

Apportionment (Election law) - United States

Political questions and judicial power - United States

Courts - United States

Law - U.S

Constitutional Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Supreme Court enters the "political thicket" -- The origins and development of contemporary voting rights controversies -- Judicial policy-making capacity -- Limits of judicial oversight of redistricting policy -- Redistricting for the new millennium -- Limits of legislatures and commissions -- Districting commissions: panacea or placebo?