Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy /

"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...

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主要作者: Engstrom, Erik J.
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
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书本目录:
  • Gerrymandering and the evolution of American politics
  • Districting and the construction of early American democracy
  • The origins of single-member districts
  • The strategic timing of congressional redistricting
  • Stacking the states, stacking the house: the partisan consequences of congressional redistricting
  • Electoral competition and critical elections
  • A congress of strangers: gerrymandering and legislative turnover
  • The partisan impact of malapportionment
  • From turbulence to stasis, 1900-1964
  • Gerrymandering and the future of American politics.