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Verfasst von:	Goedert, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Ground war
Titelzusatz:	courts, commissions, and the fight over partisan gerrymanders
Verf.angabe:	Nicholas Goedert
Verlagsort:	New York, NY
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
E-Jahr:	2022
Jahr:	[2022]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 267 Seiten)
Illustrationen:	Diagramme
ISBN:	978-0-19-762666-5
Abstract:	Partisan gerrymandering, the drawing of legislative district lines to deliberately favour one political party, has been present and controversial in American politics since before the ratification of our Constitution. Yet in the past couple of decades, parties in power at the state level have developed greater expertise than ever before at redistricting to their own advantage. Since 2010, a series of legislative, electoral, and judicial events have given this issue a prominence it has never before seen, especially as it applies to the United States Congress. In 'Ground War,' Nicholas Goedert tackles the controversies, litigation, and effects surrounding partisan gerrymandering of Congress. He contends that the appropriate actors to address the fairness of a map are nonpartisan commissions within each state, not the US courts.
	"Partisan gerrymandering, the drawing of legislative district lines to deliberately favor one political party, has been present and controversial in American politics since before the ratification of our Constitution. Yet in the past couple of decades, parties in power at the state level have developed greater expertise than ever before at redistricting to their own advantage. In Ground War, Nicholas Goedert tackles the controversies, litigation, and effects surrounding partisan gerrymandering of the US Congress. Using multiple empirical approaches and a novel metric to measure the partisan fairness of maps, Goedert argues that nonpartisan redistricting commisions, rather than the US courts, represent the best alternative to legislative redistricting." -- back cover
DOI:	doi:10.1093/oso/9780197626627.001.0001
URL:	Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626627.001.0001
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626627.001.0001
Schlagwörter:	(k)USA / Congress / House of Representatives    / (s)Sitzverteilung
	(g)USA    / (s)Wahlsystem    / (s)Wahlbezirk    / (s)Reform    / (s)Parteipolitik
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Goedert, Nicholas: Ground war. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2022. - x, 267 Seiten
RVK-Notation:	MF 4340
Sach-SW:	Circonscriptions électorales - Remaniement arbitraire - États-Unis
	Répartition des sièges - États-Unis
	Apportionment (Election law)
	Elections
	Gerrymandering
	Statistics
	Statistics
Geograph. SW:	United States
K10plus-PPN:	1800564988
	Universitätsbibliothek
Lokale URL UB:	full text