Legislation, statutory interpretation, and election law
Subtitle: examples and explanations
By: Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Series: Examples  & explanations
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781454845416
Subjects: Legislation; Law; Interpretation and construction; Election law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The legislative process; title: 1. How a bill becomes a law : from Schoolhouse Rock to vetogates and unorthodox lawmaking; title: 2. Regulating legislators; title: 3. Lobbying, bribery, and external legislative influence; title: 4. Direct democracy; title: Part II. Statutory interpretation; title: 5. Theories and practice of statutory interpretation; title: 6. Canons of statutory interpretation; title: 7. Legislative history; title: 8. Agency interpretation : statutory interpretation in the administrative state; title: Part III. Voting rights and representation; title: 9. The right to vote, representation, and redistricting; title: 10. Political parties, partisan gerrymandering, and political competition; title: 11. The Voting Rights Act, race, and redistricting; title: 12. Election administration; title: Part IV. Campaign finance; title: 13. Introduction to campaign finance : spending limits from Buckley to Citizens United; title: 14. Campaign contribution limits from Buckley to Citizens United and beyond; title: 15. Campaign finance disclosure; title: 16. Public financing.