Bibliograph

Throwing the party, how the Supreme Court puts political party organizations ahead of voters, Wayne Batchis

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Throwing the party, how the Supreme Court puts political party organizations ahead of voters, Wayne Batchis

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Throwing the party

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1322443692

Responsibility statement

Wayne Batchis

Series statement

Cambridge studies on civil rights and civil libertiesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

how the Supreme Court puts political party organizations ahead of voters

Summary

The Supreme Court's jurisprudence on political parties is rooted in an incomplete story. Parties are, like voluntary clubs, associations of individuals that are represented by a singular organization. However, as political science has long understood, they are much more than this. Parties are also the voters who choose and support their candidates, the elected officials who govern, the activists and volunteers who contribute their time and energy, and the individual and organizational donors who open their wallets. Unfortunately, the Court's framework for understanding America's two-party system has largely ignored this broader conception of political parties. The result has been a distortion of the true nature of the two-party system, and a body of deeply inconsistent and contradictory constitutional case law. From primaries to campaign finance, partisan gerrymandering to ballot access, law and politics scholar Wayne Batchis interrogates, scrutinizes, and offers a proposed solution to this problematic jurisprudence.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The Supreme Court's approach to political parties -- The association versus the individual -- Setting the stage -- Primaries and the party in the electorate : the right to vote -- Double standards : organizations over individuals and major over minor parties -- Doubling down on the party organization in service of the major parties -- Party speech through money -- An Ill-fitting party campaign finance jurisprudence -- Parties and the current campaign finance landscape -- Party and equality -- The political question : is there room for equal protection in partisan gerrymandering? -- A potential solution : the party system as a public forum -- Conclusion

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