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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 234 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511606212
Series Statement:
Political economy of institutions and decisions
Content:
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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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521806756
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521001540
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521806756
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Mathematics
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511606212
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