Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy / Erik J. Engstrom
(Legislative politics and policy making)
| Publisher | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Authors | *Engstrom, Erik J Project Muse |
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OB00025691 | Project MUSE Open Access Books (電子ブック) | 9780472029525 |
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| Size | 1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index Open Access Unrestricted online access star "Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be continuous and, after 1842, that each select only one representative, there were few restrictions on congressional districting. Unrestrained, state legislators drew and redrew districts to suit their own partisan agendas. With the rise of the "one-person, one-vote" doctrine and the implementation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however, redistricting became subject to court oversight. Engstrom evaluates the abundant cross-sectional and temporal variation in redistricting plans and their electoral results from all the states, from 1789 through the 1960s, to identify the causes and consequences of partisan redistricting. His analysis reveals that districting practices across states and over time systematically affected the competitiveness of congressional elections; shaped the partisan composition of congressional delegations; and, on occasion, determined party control of the House of Representatives"-- Provided by publisher Description based on print version record HTTP:URL=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27372/ Pub. note=Full text available: |
| Subjects | FREE:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy FREE:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Legislative Branch FREE:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections LCSH:Representative government and representation -- United States All Subject Search LCSH:Voting -- United States All Subject Search LCSH:Election districts -- United States All Subject Search LCSH:Apportionment (Election law) -- United States All Subject Search LCSH:Gerrymandering -- United States All Subject Search LCSH:United States -- Politics and government All Subject Search FREE:Electronic books |
| Classification | LCC:JK1341 DC23:328.73/073455 |
| ID | 8000024711 |
| ISBN | 9780472029525 |
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