Litt, David

Summary: Here's something true for almost every American. The democracy you live in today is different, completely different, than the democracy born into. Since 1980, the number of Americans legally barred from voting has more than doubled. Since the 1990s, odds of living in a competitive Congressional district have fallen by more than half. In the twenty-first century alone, the amount of money spent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Gehl, Katherine M.

Summary: "Our political system has become big business--and business is booming--yet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the political-industrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while together--as a duopoly--having a lock on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2020

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Summary: "As the United States becomes more politically divided, the issue of gerrymandering is at the forefront of political debate. While gerrymandering--or manipulating district boundaries for political advantages--has largely negative connotations, few experts agree about the best way to redraw districts. In this collection, legal experts, politicians, experts, and ordinary citizens weigh in on this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Berman, Ari

Summary: Looks at the fight to end gerrymandering and the influence it has on American elections.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2020

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Seabrook, Nicholas R.

Summary: "Nicholas Seabrook, authority on constitutional and election law, and expert on gerrymandering, begins with the earliest gerrymandering (pronounced with a hard 'g'!) before our nation's founding with the rigging of American elections for partisan and political gain and the election-meddling of the colonial governor of North Carolina (George Burrington) in retaliation against his critics. The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023

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Daley, David

Summary: "A revelatory account by the best- selling author of Ratf**ked that will give you hope that America's fragile democracy can still be saved. Following Ratf**ked, his "extraordinary timely and undeniably important" (New York Times Book Review) exposé of how a small cadre of Republican operatives rigged American elections, David Daley emerged as one of the nation's leading authorities on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 2020

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