Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution

by Jonathan N. Katz, Gary W. Cox, Jonathan Ned Katz

Book Overview

The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s. Both state legislative and congressional districts were redrawn more comprehensively - by far - than at any previous time in America's history. Moreover, they changed what would happen at law should a state government fail to enact a new districting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521001544
• ISBN13: 9780521001540
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"