The politics of reapportionment / Malcolm E. Jewell, editor ; with a new introduction by William J. Quirk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jewell, Malcolm Edwin, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress. House--Election districts.

United States.

Apportionment (Election law)--United States.

Apportionment (Election law).

Apportionment (Election law)--United States--States.

Election districts--United States.

Election districts.

Election districts--United States--States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2011.

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Part 1. Political patterns in apportionment

Part 2. Rural control of the legislature through apportionment

Part 3. Congressional reapportionment and partisan deadlock

Part 4. Congressional reapportionment under one-party control

Part 5. Reapportionment as a means of political control

Part six. Bypassing the legislature and urban opportunity.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Atherton Press, 1962.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-47686-6

1-315-13401-2

1-351-47685-8

9781315134017

OCLC:

1003264684