Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship, and Congressional Redistricting
The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense. Recent Congressional elections fly in the face of those requirements, however, with a startling lack of competition, growing ideological polarization, and a fierce struggle between the parties to manipulate the electoral rules of the game. Party Lines addresses these problems head on in an authoritative and timely analysis of redistricting in...
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In Party Lines, Thomas E. Mann, Bruce E. Cain, and their colleagues explain the legal and political history of redistricting since the one person, one vote revolution in the 1960s and place it in the larger context of American politics. They document its impact on competition, polarization, and partisan politics. The final chapter analyzes options for reform, including, most important, the use of independent redistricting commissions as an alternative to the typical state legislative process. Redistricting reform is no panacea but it is a start toward ensuring that American voters still have the largest say in who will represent them.
1From equality to fairness : the path of political reform since Baker v. Carr62The impact of redistricting on candidate emergence313Pushbutton gerrymanders? : how computing has changed redistricting514Forty years in the political thicket : judicial review of the redistricting process since Reynolds v. Sims675Redistricting reform : what is desirable? : possible?92
