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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- An Overview -- Redistricting's Basic Principles -- Outline of the Book -- 2 History of Redistricting Through the 1980s in the United States and North Carolina -- North Carolina's Redistricting Up to World War II -- U.S. Supreme Court Initiates the Redistricting Revolution -- Congress Enters the Redistricting Fray -- Expanding Voting Rights in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Redistricting Revolution and VRA Comes to North Carolina -- The 1980s Brings the Redistricting Fight to Black and White North Carolina -- North Carolina's Gingles Case -- North Carolina's Racial Redistricting Establishes the Nation's Legal Authority -- 3 Race-Based Redistricting in the 1990s -- North Carolina's Political Dynamics in the 1990s -- NC Receives 12th Seat and the Race and Partisan Battle Begins -- DOJ's Review -- NC General Assembly Goes for Round Two of Redistricting -- Legal Challenges Lead to Shaw v. Reno -- The U.S. Supreme Court Reviews Shaw -- Round Three of NC Redistricting and Cromartie v. Hunt -- The 1990s and North Carolina's Role in Racial Gerrymandering -- 4 Redistricting in the 2000s-The Battle Over Race Continues -- North Carolina's Politics at the Start of the Twenty-First Century -- The 1990's Battle Continues Into a New Decade: Cromartie v. Hunt -- Redistricting Shifts from Federal to State Judicial Oversight -- North Carolina's "Whole County Provision" -- Pender County's "Bright Line" -- The 2000s and North Carolina's Continued Fight Over Racial Gerrymandering -- 5 Racial Redistricting in the 2010s -- North Carolina's Partisan Environment: The Sorting and Division Grows More Intense -- The GOP's First Redistricting -- Racial Gerrymandering Claims: Dickson v. Rucho in State Court -- Harris v. McCrory/Cooper: Attacking the Congressional Districts as Racial Gerrymandering.

This study seeks to expand our understanding of judicial deference to administrative agencies within the context of one particularly important legal forum – the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The DC circuit functions as a key venue for administrative law cases and the opinions of the court constitute a growing body of common law in the field of administrative law. We investigate the importance of several agency‐centered and judge‐centered variables in explaining judicial deference to administrative agencies in cases before the DC circuit court during a twelve‐year period (1985–1996). We find that an integrated model of judicial deference, combining both legal and attitudinal factors, best explains judicial deference. Like judges on so many other courts, judges on the DC circuit are politically motivated, but their political activism is tempered by agency‐centered factors such as the type of case before the court, and environmental factors such as the composition of the judicial panel reviewing the case and the behavior of the Supreme Court.

AbstractObjectiveWe examine the size, characteristics, and attitudes of Unaffiliated party registrants as they compare to registrants from the two major parties.MethodsWe analyze voter registration files, voter history files, and public opinion data from North Carolina.ResultsUnaffiliated registrants are not simply shadow partisans but, on average, are distinct from two major parties in terms of demographics, political behavior, and political attitudes.ConclusionVoters who eschew party labels are best understood as unmoored voters—often hovering close to their ideological docks but with no institutional constraint to keep them from drifting as the political tides shift.

This edited volume, written by the leading experts in their particular states, focuses on the historic 2020 presidential election in the South. The region has played a critical role in determining the occupant of the White House for the last 50 years, and the South once again was pivotal in the 2020 contest between Trump and Biden.