Legislation, statutory interpretation, and election law : examples and explanations /
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New York :
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business,
[2014]
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Series: | Examples & explanations series
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The legislative process
- 1. How a bill becomes a law : from Schoolhouse Rock to vetogates and unorthodox lawmaking
- 2. Regulating legislators
- 3. Lobbying, bribery, and external legislative influence
- 4. Direct democracy
- Part II. Statutory interpretation
- 5. Theories and practice of statutory interpretation
- 6. Canons of statutory interpretation
- 7. Legislative history
- 8. Agency interpretation : statutory interpretation in the administrative state
- Part III. Voting rights and representation
- 9. The right to vote, representation, and redistricting
- 10. Political parties, partisan gerrymandering, and political competition
- 11. The Voting Rights Act, race, and redistricting
- 12. Election administration
- Part IV. Campaign finance
- 13. Introduction to campaign finance : spending limits from Buckley to Citizens United
- 14. Campaign contribution limits from Buckley to Citizens United and beyond
- 15. Campaign finance disclosure
- 16. Public financing