At yesterday’s Emory conference, I got to get my hands on a copy of this new edited volume, which arose out of a Tobin project conference. The book is edited by Guy Charles, Heather Gerken, and Michael Kang, and they are also the General Editors of a new book series, Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy.
Here is the table of contents:
1. The future of elections scholarship Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Heather K. Gerken and Michael S. Kang
Part I. Race and Politics: Overview Jennifer Hochschild
2. Voting rights: the next generation Rick Pildes
3. The reconstruction of voting rights Pamela S. Karlan
4. Explaining perceptions of competitive threat in a multi-racial context Vincent L. Hutchings, Cara Wong, James Jackson and Ronald Brown
Part II. Courts and the Regulation of the Electoral Process: Overview David Schleicher
5. The institutional turn in election law scholarship Heather K. Gerken and Michael S. Kang
6. Judges as political regulators: evidence and options for institutional change Richard L. Hasen
7. Empirical legitimacy and election law Christopher Elmendorf
8. Judging democracy’s boundaries Samuel Issacharoff
Part III. Election Performance and Reform: Overview Alex Keyssar
9. New directions in the study of voter mobilization Alan Gerber
10. Popular election monitoring Archon Fung
11. Democracy in the United States, 2020 and beyond: how can scholarly research shape a vision and help to realize it? Ned Foley
12. Partisanship, public opinion, and redistricting Joshua Fougere, Stephen Ansolabehere and Nathaniel Persily
13. Conclusion: more or less: searching for regulatory balance Bruce Cain.