Political Gerrymandering and the Courts

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Political Gerrymandering and the Courts is written by Bernard Grofman and published by Algora Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0875862632 (ISBN 10) and 9780875862637 (ISBN 13).

This volume is motivated by three concerns. First is the belief that the issue of political gerrymander will play a significant (although far from dominant) role in redistricting litigation in the 1990s and thereafter. In the 1980s, the legislative and/or congressional redistricting plans of all but a handful of states were subject to lawsuits (Grofman, 1985a). Many of these lawsuits involved the issue of racial vote dilution (Grofman, Migalski, and Noviello, 1985). In the 1980s hundreds of local jurisdictions that used at-large or multimember district elections had their electoral system chal.