Call it The Incredible Shrinking Reform. On the subject of Ohio's awful system for drawing political districts, the definition of "reform" is shrinking with every passing year. That is certainly not "incredible." But in the 1950s there was a movie called The Incredible Shrinking Man, and some old people think about it every time something shrinks. There's probably nothing for Hollywood in this subject. To normal people, a shrinking reform is presumably less entertaining than a shrinking man. Nevertheless, for people of a certain bent, the shrinking of this reform has been alternatively funny and sad. You'll laugh; you'll cry.
Swept up in the growing "constitutionalization" of the law of democracy, political parties today are centerpieces of American law and politics. However, even sophisticated courts and legal commentators adhere to a formalistic view of political parties as discrete, legally defined entities. The Article topples this conventional view of political parties. Drawing from recent research in political science, the Article presents a more realistic deconstruction of political parties and how they operate in American democracy. The Article argues that "parties" are merely a colloquial shorthand for bundles of political relationships, constituting fluid, informal arrangements that defy and transcend legal definition. The supralegal character of political parties complicates their legal regulation...
... party regulation succeeds in achieving reform ends, as it does at times, it is too often the res...
INTRODUCTION . Public sector reforms, developed since the 1980s in most countries of th... relationship with their electors--political or external accountability (Sinclair 1995; Stewart...' strategic objectives thus their clear definition in the document becomes a considerable means to di...
...'s interest inreducing quid pro quo political corruption. Held: Arizona's matching funds scheme ...'s Amendment" of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Actof 2002, which was invalidated in Davis v. Fede...S., at ___ (slip op., at 42)."By definition, an independent expenditure is politicalspeec...
...This article uses Galtung's definition of negative peace, meaning the absence of the use ... 1990s, following structural-adjustment reforms. In 2005 the GINI index for Ecuador was 0.54. (31)...
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Locally, [John Laird]'s opinion is split along party lines. Freshman Assemblywoman Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) supports Prop. 93. "Term limits mean that you have a very short period of time to get things done-in the Assembly case it's six years," Caballero says. "It's like a revolving door. The people who stick around the longest is the staff. Term limits are among those political words (including "career politicians," "bipartisan solution," "healthcare reform," "budget reform," or really any "reform," and, more recently, "change") intended to evoke some visceral response. And, like all of the aforementioned buzzwords, the definition depends on who's talking. The people of California have been pretty clear that they're in favor of term limits and how they are set up," says Republican po...
.... One measure of welfare reform's success had been the decline in food stamp recip... is captured, a much more precise definition of the length of time of relationship with a pantr... the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois. . Bosman, ...
Recently the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) provided guidance rega...) which extended the reach of the Political Reform Act of 1974 by including "placement agents" in thee definition of "lobbyist." Specifically, AB 1743 requires "pla...
... institutions to enforce this new definition. The effect has been a transformation of religion ...By monopolizing religious affairs, the political system has become a regime of religion in which th... in any future movement to significantly reform Iran's regime of religion. . NOTES . (1) Clifford ...
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