Elections and Alignment

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Abstract

Election law doctrine has long been dominated by rights-and-interests balancing: the weighing of the rights burdens imposed by electoral regulations against the state interests that the regulations serve. For the last generation, the election law literatu