Issacharoff, Karlan and Pildes' The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, 3d

This book offers a systematic exploration of the legal construction of American democracy. It brings together a cluster of issues in law regulating the design of democratic institutions, and it employs a variety of methods—historical, comparative, theoretical, doctrinal—to explore foundational questions in the theory and practice of democracy. Covered issues include the historical development of the individual right to vote; current struggles over racial gerrymandering; the relationship of the state to political parties; the constitutional and policy issues surrounding campaign-finance reform; and the tension between majority rule and fair representation of minorities in democratic bodies.