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Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?

Bruce E. Cain · Yale Law Journal 121(7), 1808–1844 · 2012

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Bruce E. Cain
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TheoryIndependent citizen redistricting commissions have largely succeeded in limiting the conflict of interest of legislators drawing their own districts, but have not eliminated partisan suspicion of line-drawing or the risk of commission deadlock.