Wayne Batchis

Throwing the Party

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This series is a platform for original scholarship on US civil rights and civil liberties. It produces books on the normative, historical, judicial, political, and sociological contexts for understanding contemporary legislative, jurisprudential, and presidential dilemmas. The aim is to provide experts, teachers, policymakers, students, social activists, and educated citizens with in-depth analyses of theories, existing and past conditions, and constructive ideas for legal advancements"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781009095853
• ISBN-10: 1009095854
• Artikelnr.: 63461588

Autorenporträt

Wayne Batchis is an associate professor of political science at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Right's First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and the Return of Conservative Libertarianism (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction
2. The Supreme Court's approach to political parties
3. The association versus the individual
Part II. Party Primaries: 4. Setting the stage
5. Primaries and the party in the electorate: the right to vote
6. Double standards: organizations over individuals and major over minor parties
7. Doubling down on the party organization in service of the major parties
Part III. The Party, the Court, and Campaign Finance Law: 8. Party speech through money
9. An ill-fitting party campaign finance jurisprudence
10. Parties and the current campaign finance landscape
Part IV. Passé Equal Protection and a Way Forward
11. Party and equality
12. The political question: is there room for equal protection in partisan gerrymandering?
13. A potential solution: the party system as a public forum
14. Conclusion.