Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Politics of Apportionment

by Peter H. Argersinger

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110749835X
• ISBN13: 9781107498358
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"