Ground war : courts, commissions, and the fight over partisan gerrymanders / Nicholas Goedert.

New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

©2022.

x, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

"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.

English

July 28, 2022

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.