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    Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy

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    Author(s)
    Engstrom, Erik J.
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    103432
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30132
    Keywords
    Political Science; Apportionment (politics); Congressional district; Democratic Party (United States); Gerrymandering; Redistricting; Republican Party (United States); State legislature (United States)
    DOI
    10.1353/book.27372
    ISBN
    9780472119011
    Publisher
    University of Michigan Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.press.umich.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Ann Arbor, 2013-09-01
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 103432 - KU Pilot
    Classification
    Political science & theory
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    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Apportionment (politics) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_(politics); Congressional district - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_district; Democratic Party (United States) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States); Gerrymandering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering; Redistricting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting; Republican Party (United States) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States); State legislature (United States) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States)
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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