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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext "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"-- Vorwort From primaries to gerrymandering, this book scrutinizes and offers a proposed solution to the Supreme Court's problematic political parties' jurisprudence. Zusammenfassung The Supreme Court's understanding of political parties is impoverished, Batchis argues. The result is a distortion of the two-party system, and an inconsistent and contradictory constitutional law. From primaries to campaign finance, gerrymandering to ballot access, Batchis analyzes and offers a proposed solution to this problematic jurisprudence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
