Bruce E. Cain

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Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?

121 Yale L.J. 1808 (2012). The new institutionalism in election law aims to lessen the necessity of court intervention in politically sensitive election administration matters such as redistricting by harnessing politics to fix politics. Many hope that independent citizen commissions (ICCs) will improve the politics associated with drawing new district boundaries. As the recent round of redistricting comes to a...