Redistricting in Comparative Perspective

Herausgeber: Grofman, Bernard; Handley, Lisa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable introduction to the institutions, practices, and consequences of boundary delimitation around the world brings together some of the world's leading specialists on redistricting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199227402
• ISBN-10: 0199227403
• Artikelnr.: 25427740

Autorenporträt

Bernard Grofman received his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 1972. He has been Professor of Political Science since 1980, and on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine since 1976. His past research has dealt with mathematical models of group decision making, legislative representation, electoral rules, and redistricting. Currently, he is working on comparative politics and political economy, with an emphasis on viewing the United States in comparative perspective. He is co-author of 4 books and co-editor of 16 other books; he has published over 200 research articles and book chapters, including work in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Social Choice and Welfare, and Public Choice. Professor Grofman is a past President of the Public Choice Society. Lisa Handley is President of Frontier International Electoral Consulting and a widely recognized expert on the drawing of electoral boundaries, her previous books include Minority Representation and the Quest for Voting Equality (with B. Grofman and R.G. Niemi, CUP, 1994).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: John Courtney: From Gerrymanders to Independence: District
Boundary Readjustments in Canada
* 2: Alan McRobie: An Independent Commission with Political Input: New
Zealand's Electoral Redistribution Practices
* 3: Alonso Lujambio and Horacio Vives: From Politics to
Technicalities: Mexican Redistricting in Historical Perspective
* 4: Michael P. McDonald: United States Redistricting: A Comparative
Look at the 50 States
* 5: Alistair McMillan: Delimitation in India
* 6: Rod Medew: Redistribution in Australia: The Importance of One
Vote, One Value
* 7: Toshimasha Moriwaki: The Politics of Redistricting in Japan: A
Contradiction between Equal Population and Local Government
Boundaries
* 8: Andrew Reynolds: Reserved Seats in National Legislatures: A
Comparative Approach
* 9: Jon Fraenkel: The Design of Ethnically Mixed Constituencies in
Fiji, 1970-2006
* 10: David Lublin: Race and Redistricting in the United States
* 11: John Coakley: Electoral Boundary Delimitation in Ireland
* 12: Michel Balinski: Redistricting in France under Changing Electoral
Rules
* 13: Lisa Handley: Delimiting Electoral Boundaries in Post-Conflict
Settings
* 14: Johnston, Charles Pattie, and David Rossiter: Electoral
Distortion Despite Redistricting by Independent Commissions: the
British Case 1950-2005, Ron
* 15: Thomas Brunell and Bernard Grofman: The Partisan Consequences of
Baker v. Carr and the One Person, One Vote Revolution
* 16: Toshishiro Sakaguchi and Junichiro Wada: Automating the
Districting Process: An Experiment Using a Japanese Case Study
* 17: Marina Popescu and Gabor Toka: Districting in Eastern Europe:
Regulations and Practices
* 18: Lisa Handley: A Comparative Survey of Structures and Criteria for
Boundary Delimitation