Parties in Court - American Political Parties Under the Constitution

Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Wigton is professor of political science at Eckerd College and an attorney. Klappentext American political parties have long existed in a gray area of constitutional law because of their uncertain status. Parties in this country are neither fully public nor fully private entities. This constitutional ambiguity has meant that political parties are considered private organizations for some purposes and public ones for others. This "public-private entity" problem has arisen in many different legal contexts over the years. However, given their case-by-case method of judicial review, courts have typically dealt with only very discrete parts of this larger problem. This work is an endeavor to describe and analyze the constitutional status of political parties in this country by synthesizing the best judicial and scholarly thinking on the subject. In the final chapter, I draw on these ideas to propose my own scheme for how political parties might be best accommodated in a democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: American Political Parties, Government Regulation & Constitutional LawChapter 2: The Judicial Regulation of the Internal Activities of Political PartiesChapter 3: The Regulation of Political Parties in the Electoral ProcessChapter 4: The Regulation of Incumbent Political PartiesChapter 5: Summary and RecommendationsBibliographyCases Cited

Product details

• Authors: Robert C. Wigton, Wigton Robert C.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9780739189672
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8967-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Political parties and party platforms, Central government, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general