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"[T]his is the only book in print to analyze the partisan and electoral consequences of congressional reapportionment and redistricting. Highly recommended for lower-division undergraduates and above." Choice

"Elbridge Gerry's Salamander will be of interest to students of congressional elections, electoral institutions, and the courts...[It] should be required reading for graduate seminars on the topic. This book is the new standard for research on this topic and is sure to lead to vigorous debates concerning the impact of redistricting on incumbency safety and partisan bias." Congress & the Presidency

"...a study with important new findings relating to the impact of the reapportionment revolution." Perspectives on Politics


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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 our nation's history. Moreover, they changed what would legally happen should a state government fail to enact a new districting plan when one was legally required. This book provides the first detailed analysis of how judicial partisanship affected redistricting outcomes in the 1960s, arguing that the reapportionment revolution led indirectly to three fundamental changes in the nature of congressional elections: the abrupt eradication of a 6% pro-Republican bias in the translation of congressional votes into seats outside the south; the abrupt increase in the apparent advantage of incumbents; and the abrupt alteration of the two parties' success in congressional recruitment and elections.

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The word gerrymander describes a distinctively (albeit not uniquely) American practice, that of redrawing district lines to achieve partisan (or other) advantage. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
redistricting actions, increasing incumbency advantage, real incumbency advantage, redistricting party, disappearing bias, expected vote loss, open seat losses, partisan electoral consequences, held previous elective office, vote forecasts, expected seat share, focal judge, postwar congressional elections, reversionary outcome, prerevolutionary plans, redistricting cycle, untouched districts, nonsouthern districts, court partisanship, reapportionment revolution, electoral coordination, supervising court, retirement slump, new districting plan, conservative reversions
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New Jersey, New York, House of Representatives, Congressional Quarterly, Lagged Incumbent Vote, United States, Redrawn District, Republican Bipartisan, Bipartisan Bipartisan, Dynamic Court, Estimated Coefficients Independent Variables, Redistricting Status Year Redrawn Between November, Barry Goldwater, Democrat Bipartisan, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Sketch Proof, Voting Rights Act
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