Author: Peter H. Argersinger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-29

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1107023009

This book examines fierce conflicts over apportionment and gerrymandering in the late nineteenth-century Midwest. Parties, legislatures, and courts became embroiled in disruptive struggles that first overturned and then entrenched gerrymanders in American politics. The book demonstrates the centrality of apportionment to American politics and critically reveals the ways that political institutions themselves obstructed rather than implemented democratic ideals.