TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engstrom,Erik J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy
T2  - Legislative politics and policy making
SN  - 9780472029525
AV  - JK1341 .E64 2013
U1  - 328.73/073455 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Legislative Branch
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - United States
KW  - Voting
KW  - Election districts
KW  - Apportionment (Election law)
KW  - Gerrymandering
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27372/
ER  -