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Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America - The Politics of Apportionment (Hardcover, New)
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Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America - The Politics of Apportionment (Hardcover, New)
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This book demonstrates that apportionment, although long overlooked
by scholars, dominated state politics in late nineteenth-century
America, setting the boundaries not only for legislative districts
but for the nature of representative democracy. The book examines
the fierce struggles over apportionment in the Midwest, where a
distinctive constitutional and electoral context shaped their
course with momentous consequences. As the major parties alternated
in effectively disenfranchising their opponents through
gerrymanders, growing tensions challenged established patterns of
political behaviour and precipitated intense and even dangerous
disputes. Unprecedented judicial intervention overturned
gerrymanders in stunning decisions that electrified the public but
intensified rather than resolved political conflict and
uncertainty. Ultimately, America's political ideal of
representative democracy was frustrated by its own political
institutions, including the courts, because their decisions against
gerrymandering in the 1890s helped parties and legislatures
entrench the practice as a basic and profoundly undemocratic
feature of American politics in the twentieth century.
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