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- Title
INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS.
- Authors
Lesowitz, Scott M.
- Abstract
Provides an overview of Proposition 77 or the creation of an independent commission, composed of three retired judges, to replace the state legislature as the chief body in charge of performing redistricting in California. Challenge of creating appropriate levels of competition and constructing districts that are not biased ion favor of one political party; Criticisms against the processes used to select commission members that are intended to lessen the chance of bias; Democratic accountability of failed ballot measures.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; APPORTIONMENT (Election law); INDEPENDENT regulatory commissions; POLITICAL parties; REFERENDUM
- Publication
Harvard Journal on Legislation, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 2, p535
- ISSN
0017-808X
- Publication type
Article