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Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Autor Gary W. Cox, Jonathan N. Katz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2002
The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s. Both state legislative and congressional districts were redrawn more comprehensively - by far - than at any previous time in America's history. Moreover, they changed what would happen at law should a state government fail to enact a new districting plan when one was legally required. This book provides a detailed analysis of how judicial partisanship affected redistricting outcomes in the 1960s, arguing that the reapportionment revolution led indirectly to three fundamental changes in the nature of congressional elections: the abrupt eradication of a 6% pro-Republican bias in the translation of congressional votes into seats outside the south; the abrupt increase in the apparent advantage of incumbents; and the abrupt alteration of the two parties' success in congressional recruitment and elections.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521001540
ISBN-10: 0521001544
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 7 b/w illus. 22 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. The reapportionment revolution; Part II. Democrats and Republicans: 3. A model of Congressional redistricting in the US; 4. The case of the disappearing bias; 5. The role of the courts in the 1960s redistricting process; 6. Bias, responsiveness and the courts; 7. Redistricting's differing impact on Democratic and Republican incumbents; Part III. Incumbents and Challengers: 8. The growth of the incumbency advantage; 9. Redistricting and electoral coordination; 10. Redistricting, the probability of securing a majority and entry; 11. Reassessing the incumbency advantage; Part IV. Conclusion: 12. Conclusion.

Recenzii

"[T]his is the only book in print to analyze the partisan and electoral consequences of congressional reapportionment and redistricting. Highly recommended for lower-division undergraduates and above." Choice
"Elbridge Gerry's Salamander will be of interest to students of congressional elections, electoral institutions, and the courts...[It] should be required reading for graduate seminars on the topic. This book is the new standard for research on this topic and is sure to lead to vigorous debates concerning the impact of redistricting on incumbency safety and partisan bias." Congress & the Presidency
"...a study with important new findings relating to the impact of the reapportionment revolution." Perspectives on Politics

Descriere

This book shows how the Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions sparked a wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s.