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... with an intent to exclude or limit the political influence of the county's black community in viola...Districting systems and electoral mechanisms that may affect the "weight" given to a...1985 Ga. Laws, p. 4406. In a referendum held in 1986, however, t... Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences 113, 116 (B. Grofman & A. Lijphart eds. 1986) (des...
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... to elect candidates with widespread electoral support.2 1 See Charles L. Dodgson, A Discus...Abeles, Introduction to the Political Pamphlets and Letters, in 3 THE PAMPHLETS OF LEWIS... Electoral Systems, in ELECTORAL LAWS AND THEIR POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES 193, 195 (Bernard...
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... Prescott 2004)], (3) the causes and consequences of the global economic collapse of 1929-1933 conti... ignores important institutional and political details. (19) . Another explanation focuses on the...(32) . Although both laws eventually were for different reasons later declar... to the White House in popular and Electoral College vote landslides in November 1932. But in o...
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... as unconstitutional, it is not because the laws classify but because the laws violate colorblindne... to carry us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters--a goal tha... visible political manipulation of electoral structures, particularly when done selectively for... volition or intent as awareness of consequences. It implies that the decisionmaker, in this case a...
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- Bob Geary, Robert Silvestri, Dennis Mark, Melissa Gundrun, Wayne Johnson, David Soule, Max Woods, Peter Johnson, Robert Gebert, Election Action, Terence Faulkner, and Sudi Trippet, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Louise Renne, San Francisco City Attorney, Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Mayor, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco, City and County of San Francisco, and Jay Patterson, San Francisco Registrar of Voters, Defendants-Appellants., 880 F.2d 1062 (9th Cir. 1989)
...6(b):. No political party or party central committee may endorse, supp... which it applies of equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. We hold...-minded voters to associate in the electoral arena to enhance their political effectiveness as ... in the adage that the unintended consequences of an action are frequently far greater than that ...
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...Its electoral college regionalizes the contest for the national ...presidency within their respective political systems. We also need to ask ourselves, what is th...In Electoral laws and their political consequences, edited by Bernar...
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... congressional districts lies with the political branches of government, and hesitant to undo the w... background, the Latinos' diminishing electoral support for the incumbent indicates their belief h... accounting for the detrimental consequences of its compactness problems. Second, the District ...: The Impact of State Electoral Laws on Unified Party Control of the Presidency and Hou...
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... is treated as a technical rather than political problem, detaching it from root causes like landow... depoliticized the causes and consequences of the displacement. Forced internal displacement ...Currently, displacement-related laws in Colombia are heralded as the most progressive a... in 2002, his mandate was based on an electoral campaign promising a hardline policy against the g...
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Although the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) received nearly unanimous congressional support, only a few years thereafter its wisdom was increasingly questioned and its supporters had to stave off attempts to recraft the legislation. The financial crisis of 2008 has sidelined efforts to alter the legislation's most costly provision, as Congress's attention has turned to overhauling the regulatory regime for financial institutions. There is, nonetheless, much to be learned about financial regulation and SOX's future, from an in-depth examination of the interplay of the government and private commissions created with an eye to revising the legislation, media coverage of those entities, and congressional responses. That interaction provides a map of political fault lines and assi...
...In contrast, most U.S. states' securities laws had prohibited the sale of securities not meeting ... Media and Congress Respond to SOX's Consequences. Corporate scandals can make good copy for the med..., food distribution - in terms of the electoral connection: by informing the public of social prot...
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..., inter alia, that it constituted a political gerrymander in violation of Article I and the Four... and neutral principles for drawing electoral boundaries. No substantive definition of fairness ...Laws promulgated by the Legislative Branch can be incon... to prove that the likely political consequences of the reapportionment were intended." Id. , at 1...