TY - BOOK ID - 23653161 TI - Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy PY - 2013 VL - *1 SN - 9780472029525 047211901X 1306081637 0472029525 9781306081634 9780472900015 0472900013 9780472119011 PB - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, DB - UniCat KW - Apportionment (Election law) KW - Election districts KW - Gerrymandering KW - Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Legislative Branch KW - Gerrymander KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Legislative Branch. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections. KW - Representative government and representation KW - Voting KW - United States KW - Politics and government. KW - Government KW - History, Political KW - Representative government and representation. KW - United States--Politics and government. KW - Parliamentary government KW - Political representation KW - Representation KW - Self-government KW - Constitutional history KW - Constitutional law KW - Political science KW - Democracy KW - Elections KW - Republics KW - Suffrage UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23653161 AB - "Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be continuous and, after 1842, that each select only one representative, there were few restrictions on congressional districting. Unrestrained, state legislators drew and redrew districts to suit their own partisan agendas. With the rise of the "one-person, one-vote" doctrine and the implementation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however, redistricting became subject to court oversight. Engstrom evaluates the abundant cross-sectional and temporal variation in redistricting plans and their electoral results from all the states, from 1789 through the 1960s, to identify the causes and consequences of partisan redistricting. His analysis reveals that districting practices across states and over time systematically affected the competitiveness of congressional elections; shaped the partisan composition of congressional delegations; and, on occasion, determined party control of the House of Representatives"-- ER -