Political Gerrymandering and the Courts

Political Gerrymandering and the Courts......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction......Page 15
1 Unresolved Issues in Partisan Gerrymandering Litigation......Page 17
2 The Unfinished Reapportionment Revolution......Page 25
What Does Bandemer Mean?......Page 41
3 Toward a Coherent Theory of Gerrymandering: Banderner and Thornburg......Page 43
4 Bandemer’s Gap: Gerrymandering and Equal Protection......Page 78
5 Perspectives on Dauis u. Banderner: Views of the Practitioner, Theorist, and Reformer......Page 131
How to Measure Partisan Gerrymandering......Page 157
6 Establishing a Statewide Electoral Effects Baseline......Page 159
7 The Swing Ratio as a Measure of Partisan Gerrymandering......Page 185
8 Detecting Gerrymandering......Page 192
9 The “Totality of Circumstances” Approach......Page 217
10 A Geographer’s Perspective......Page 226
1 1 Partisan Gerrymandering: A Political Problem Without Judicial Solution’......Page 254
Applications: Indiana......Page 267
12 Compactness and the 1980s Districts in the Indiana State House: Evidence of Political Gerrymandering?......Page 269
13 Majority-Win Percentages: An Approach to the Votes-Seats Relationship in Light of Dads L). Banderner......Page 280
Applications: California......Page 293
14 Comparing the Compactness of California Congressional Districts Under Three Different Plans: 1980, 1982, and 1984......Page 295
15 Determining the Predictability of Partisan Voting Patterns in California Elections, 1978-1 984......Page 303
16 Lessons from the 1973 California Masters’ Plan......Page 310
ReferencedAuthor Index......Page 332
References......Page 333
Index......Page 345