apportionment (election law)

A collection of fifteen essays that explore various issues related to gerrymandering which is the practice of redrawing district boundaries to help those up for election.

As the United States becomes more politically divided, the issue of gerrymandering is at the forefront of political debate. While gerrymandering--or manipulating district boundaries for political advantages--has largely negative connotations, few experts agree about the best way to redraw districts. In this collection, legal experts, politicians, experts, and ordinary citizens weigh in on this controversial and timely topic.

A collection of fifteen essays that explore various issues related to gerrymandering which is the practice of redrawing district boundaries to help those up for election.

With Barack Obama?s historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as the media swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks?known to political insiders as ?ratf**king??to a whole new, unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money made possible by Citizens United, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures, where the power to redistrict is held. Reconstructing this never- told-before story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this so-called REDMAP program, which has radically altered America?s electoral map and created a firewall in the House, insulating the party and its wealthy donors from popular democracy. Ratf**ked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history.

Presents a comprehensive study into the Supreme Court's role in regulating elections and analyzes previous cases of court intervention including the 1962 case Baker v. Carr, in which the Court considered claims that a state legislature had violated the Constitution.