Elbridge Gerry's salamander : the electoral consequences of the reapportionment revolution
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Elbridge Gerry's salamander : the electoral consequences of the reapportionment revolution
(Political economy of institutions and decisions)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 219-227
Includes indexes
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内容説明
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.
目次
- 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.
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