Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship, and Congressional Redistricting

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The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense. Recent Congressional elections fly in the face of those requirements, however, with a startling lack of competition, growing ideological polarization, and a fierce struggle between the parties to manipulate the electoral rules of the game. Party Lines addresses these problems head on in an authoritative and timely analysis of redistricting in the United States.

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"This study of congressional redistricting, edited by Mann and Cain, is a concise five-chapter volume that makes a coherent argument grounded in sound research. Highly recommended." Q. Kidd, Christopher Newport University, CHOICE

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Thomas E.Mann is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the W. Averell Harriman Chair. He is a frequent media commentator on American politics. Bruce E. Cain is Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley and director of the UC Washington Center. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books.