The Impact of Reapportionment on the Washington House of Representatives
Author: James J. Best
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Published: 1971*
Total Pages: 136
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Author: James J. Best
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Published: 1971*
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy G. O'Rourke
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781412825962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Wesley Snelson
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Larry M. Schwab
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only book to date to analyze the impact of congressional redistricting and reapportionment from the early 1960s to the 1980s. Equal-population redistricting, and the 1970 and 1980 reapportionments shifted seats in the House of Representatives to suburbia and the sunbelt. While the new district alignments influenced changes in several aspects of the House, conservatives, Republicans, and sunbelt Representatives failed to make significant gains in power as had been predicted.
Author: Eleanore Bushnell
Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gordon E. Baker
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm Jewell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1351476858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with apportionment is evidence of a failure of the political process in many states. A political solution to the problem requires better understanding and more accurate information about apportionment, which may be found in The Politics of Reapportionment.Understanding the politics of apportionment may be broken down into four parts: What are the political factors that have caused the various states to follow differing courses in apportionment? What are the political consequences of these differences in apportionment? When a legislature is grappling with any reapportionment problem, what roles are played by the various political groups involved? What are the consequences of transferring this controversy out of the legislative arena?Jewell notes that a study of legislative apportionment is essential to an understanding of any representative system of government. In the U.S. the patterns of apportionment have vitally affected the nature of our state and national political institutions, and our political history has been marked by a number of colorful struggles over this issue. For these reasons, American political scientists have devoted more attention to apportionment than to many other problems of government.
Author: Frances E. Lee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999-10
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780226470061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book raises questions about one of the key institutions of American government, the United States Senate, and should be of interest to anyone concerned with issues of representation.
Author: Michael Waldman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1982198931
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Author: Franklin L. Kury
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-05-18
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 0761870261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court will render a decision in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case that could have a revolutionary impact on American politics and how legislative representation is chosen. Gerrymandering! A Guide to Congressional Redistricting, Dark Money and the Supreme Court is a unique explanation to understand and act on the Court’s decision, whatever it may be. After describing the importance of legislative representation, the book describes the anatomy of a redistricting n Pennsylvania. That is followed by a review of legislative redistricting in American history and the Supreme Court’s role throughout. The book relates what has happened to the efforts to bring changes to redistricting through the legislatures, including the unseen but omnipresent use of dark money to oppose reforms. The penultimate chapter analyzes the Wisconsin case now pending in the Supreme Court and concludes that anyone relying on the Court’s decision is relying on a firm maybe. Following the text is a Citizen’s Toolbox with which readers throughout the country can evaluate the redistricting situation in their states. The Toolbox is replete with useful information gerrymandering. There are numerous books that tell how bad gerrymandering is, but my book is different, much different. Unlike the others, this book analyzes gerrymandering as developed through the force of history, the hardball politics of state legislatures and scantily disclosed campaign expenditures to maintain it, and the daunting legal challenge for those who want the Supreme Court to adopt a new national standard for determining when gerrymandering is unconstitutional as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The daunting challenges is to show the Court that a mathematical formula, such as the efficiency gap formula, is a valid method to measure violations of the 14th amendment’s guarantee that every citizen be given equal protection of the law.