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oapen-20.500.12657-301322024-03-25T09:51:06Z Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy Engstrom, Erik J. Political Science Apportionment (politics) Congressional district Democratic Party (United States) Gerrymandering Redistricting Republican Party (United States) State legislature (United States) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:45:52Z 2020-04-01T12:45:52Z 2013-09-01 book 649968 OCN: 864551166 9780472119011 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30132 eng application/pdf n/a 649968.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.1353/book.27372 103432 10.1353/book.27372 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472119011 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ann Arbor 103432 KU Pilot 469367 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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