“What the French Revolution teaches us about the dangers of gerrymandering”
Rebecca
Spang with a Bastille Day connection to unabashed partisan redistricting.
Category Archives: political parties
Hofeller’s files in North Carolina
The files from Tom
Hofeller that Rick keeps
mentioning in the context of the census case were given to advocates in North
Carolina primarily for use in a redistricting case in state court (i.e.,
not affected by the SCOTUS ruling… Continue reading
Presidential Caucus Voting by Phone
Partisan Polarization: It’s _Less_ Bad Than We Thought?
An intriguing new study finds substantial split-ticket voting for downballot incumbents.
“Libertarian, Green parties sue Texas over ballot requirements”
From the Houston
Chronicle.
“Be Careful What You Wish For: Private Political Parties, Public Primaries, and State Constitutional Restrictions
Hugh Spitzer has written this article for the Washington Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Political parties always disliked the Progressive Era changes that pulled the entire electorate into nominating candidates. Why, after all, should non-party members participate in the… Continue reading
“Phone and Online Voting for Democrats in the 2020 Caucuses? DNC Is at a Major Crossroads”
Steven Rosenfeld:
The Independent Media Institute’s Voting Booth project obtained a copy of Iowa’s RFP and asked industry and academic experts in remote voting and election cyber-security to assess Iowa’s envisioned telephone-based system. The experts’ top concerns—based on observing similar… Continue reading
“The Historical Development of the U.S. Presidential Nominations Process”
Rick Pildes has posted this draft on SSRN (Forthcoming in The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times (E. Mazo ed.)) Here is the abstract:
The presidential-candidate nomination process is increasingly a train wreck. Voters are now asked to sort… Continue reading
“Republicans and the Voting Rights Act”
Michael Morley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Tulsa Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This invited essay reviews Jesse H. Rhodes’s book Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act. The book’s main thesis is that… Continue reading
El-Haj on Kang on El-Haj on Responsive Party Government
Tabatha Abu el-Haj in the Columbia Law Review Online:
Despite finding my diagnosis of the ills of contemporary American parties and my indictment of responsible party government and its hold over First Amendment doctrine “almost undeniable,” Professor Kang raises two… Continue reading
“Democratic Candidates Are Preparing For A Contested Convention — By Courting Superdelegates”
“Balkinization Symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum, The Company They Keep– Collected Posts”
Balkinization:
Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum’s new book, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to … Continue reading
“Fewer States Will Have Caucuses in 2020. Will It Matter?”
NYT’s The Upshot reports.
“Ranked-Choice Voting = Super Saturday in Alaska, Hawaii”
Dave Daley and Rob Richie oped:
Step aside, Super Tuesday — and say aloha to ranked-choice voting.While contests in 11 states on March 3 will elect the most delegates in the 2020 presidential primaries, it’s April 4 — and… Continue reading