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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"[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
"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 happen at law should a state government fail to enact a new districting plan when one was legally required.
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court majority, disappearing bias, expected vote loss, redistricting actions, open seat losses, increasing incumbency advantage, real incumbency advantage, partisan electoral consequences, tionment revolution, lagged vote share, focal judge, reversionary outcome, redistricting party, vote forecasts, held previous elective office, untouched districts, court partisanship, expected seat share, conservative reversions, nonsouthern districts, redistricting cycle, electoral coordination, retirement slump, supervising court, new districting plan Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, New Jersey, The Role of the Courts, Lagged Incumbency Status, New York, Congressional Quarterly, Model of Congressional Redistricting, House of Representatives, The Case of the Disappearing Bias, United States, Candidate Entry Decisions, Lagged Incumbent Vote, Independent Variables Estimated Coefficients, Redrawn District, The Growth of the Incumbency Advantage, Reassessing the Incumbency Advantage, Voting Rights Act, Final Thoughts, Democratic Partisan, Redistricting Status Year Redrawn Between November, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Bipartisan Bipartisan, Dynamic Court, Log Likelihood, Sketch Proof Browse Sample Pages:
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court majority, disappearing bias, expected vote loss, redistricting actions, open seat losses, increasing incumbency advantage, real incumbency advantage, partisan electoral consequences, tionment revolution, lagged vote share, focal judge, reversionary outcome, redistricting party, vote forecasts, held previous elective office, untouched districts, court partisanship, expected seat share, conservative reversions, nonsouthern districts, redistricting cycle, electoral coordination, retirement slump, supervising court, new districting plan Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, New Jersey, The Role of the Courts, Lagged Incumbency Status, New York, Congressional Quarterly, Model of Congressional Redistricting, House of Representatives, The Case of the Disappearing Bias, United States, Candidate Entry Decisions, Lagged Incumbent Vote, Independent Variables Estimated Coefficients, Redrawn District, The Growth of the Incumbency Advantage, Reassessing the Incumbency Advantage, Voting Rights Act, Final Thoughts, Democratic Partisan, Redistricting Status Year Redrawn Between November, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Bipartisan Bipartisan, Dynamic Court, Log Likelihood, Sketch Proof Browse Sample Pages:
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