Drawing lines in quicksand
Subtitle: courts, legislatures & redistricting
By: Jeremy Buchman.
Series: Teaching texts in law and politics,; v. 34
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Apportionment (Election law) -- United States.; Political questions and judicial power -- United States.; Courts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Supreme Court enters the "political thicket" : the reapportionment cases; title: The origins and development of contemporary voting rights controversies; title: Judicial policy-making capacity; title: Limits of judicial oversight of redistricting policy; title: Redistricting for the new millennium; title: Limits of legislative districting; title: Districting commissions : panacea or placebo?