Gordon E Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5683412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon E Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon E |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Henry A. Turner
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Stephen S. Goodspeed
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Postscript
Subsequent to the filing of Badham v. Eu , the 1984 California elections provided classic examples that pervasive gerrymandering has become the newest form of voting dilution. On a statewide basis, Republican congressional candidates in California captured a clear majority of the two-party vote, yet won only 18 of the 45 seats (or 40 percent). Congressional district lines were drawn by incumbent Democrats in Congress and ratified by the heavily D…
Excerpts from Declaration of Gordon E. Baker in Badham v. Eu
Gerrymandering—the intentional manipulation of legislative boundaries for political advantage—is a venerable practice. Why, then, some might wonder, should we pay greater attention to it at this time? In particular, should judicial inquiry into constitutional issues of fair representation, intense for some two decades, now turn to what may well seem to comprise the heart of the “political thicket”? Throughout this period of reapportionment litiga…
An Historical Tour Through the Political Thicket
William Ebenstein
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Reapportionment by Initiative in Oregon
Reapportionment By Initiative in Oregon
NE OF THE MOST PERSISTENT and knotty problems of state government is the periodic apportionment of legislative seats to keep pace with population shifts. Few states, if any, have solved the problem in so apparently satisfactory a way as has Oregon. The fact that the solution was arrived at by means of the System of direct democracy makes this accomplishment a matter of special interest to students of government. The implementation which appears s…
McCulloch v. Maryland Right Principle, Wrong Case
The Web of Subversion
The Web of Subversion
McCulloch v. Maryland Right Principle, Wrong Case
Reapportionment by Initiative in Oregon
Reapportionment By Initiative in Oregon
NE OF THE MOST PERSISTENT and knotty problems of state government is the periodic apportionment of legislative seats to keep pace with population shifts. Few states, if any, have solved the problem in so apparently satisfactory a way as has Oregon. The fact that the solution was arrived at by means of the System of direct democracy makes this accomplishment a matter of special interest to students of government. The implementation which appears s…
William Ebenstein
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An Historical Tour Through the Political Thicket
Postscript
Subsequent to the filing of Badham v. Eu , the 1984 California elections provided classic examples that pervasive gerrymandering has become the newest form of voting dilution. On a statewide basis, Republican congressional candidates in California captured a clear majority of the two-party vote, yet won only 18 of the 45 seats (or 40 percent). Congressional district lines were drawn by incumbent Democrats in Congress and ratified by the heavily D…
Excerpts from Declaration of Gordon E. Baker in Badham v. Eu
Gerrymandering—the intentional manipulation of legislative boundaries for political advantage—is a venerable practice. Why, then, some might wonder, should we pay greater attention to it at this time? In particular, should judicial inquiry into constitutional issues of fair representation, intense for some two decades, now turn to what may well seem to comprise the heart of the “political thicket”? Throughout this period of reapportionment litiga…
Stephen S. Goodspeed
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Henry A. Turner
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