Partisan gerrymandering and the construction of American democracy /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Engstrom, Erik J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Collection:Legislative politics & policy making.
Sujets:
Gerrymandering > United States.
Apportionment (Election law) > United States.
Election districts > United States.
Voting > United States.
Representative government and representation > United States.
Circonscriptions électorales > Remaniement arbitraire > États-Unis.
Répartition des sièges > États-Unis.
Circonscriptions électorales > États-Unis.
Vote > États-Unis.
Gouvernement représentatif > États-Unis.
Political science and theory.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Apportionment (Election law)
Election districts
Gerrymandering
Representative government and representation
Voting
Wahlbezirk
Manipulation
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
political science.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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