ELBRIDGE GERRY'S SALAMANDER by Gary W. Cox, Jonathan N. Katz ( 9780521001540 )

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ELBRIDGE GERRY'S SALAMANDER
THE ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE REAPPORTIONMENT REVOLUTION

By:

Gary W. Cox, Jonathan N. Katz

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0521001544

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9780521001540

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 March, 2002

Series:

Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Pages:

248

Description:

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

Synopsis:

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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7 b/w illus. 22 tables

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