Local redistribution and local democracy: Interest groups and the courts

Local Redistribution and Local Democracy: Interest Groups and the Courts

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-235

  Gillette, Clayton P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

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