No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest

No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest
ISBN-10
0814712797
ISBN-13
9780814712795
Series
No Middle Ground
Category
Social Science
Pages
329
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Kathleen M. Blee

Description

In the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court’s role in regulating elections. Drawing on the case files of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts, Hasen roots the Court’s intervention in political process cases to the landmark 1962 case, Baker v. Carr. The case opened the courts to a variety of election law disputes, to the point that the courts now control and direct major aspects of the American electoral process. The Supreme Court does have a crucial role to play in protecting a socially constructed “core” of political equality principles, contends Hasen, but it should leave contested questions of political equality to the political process itself. Under this standard, many of the Court’s most important election law cases from Baker to Bush have been wrongly decided.

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