Representation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America the politics of apportionment
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 the fierce struggles over apportio...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- "Injustices and inequities": the politics of apportionment, 1870-1888
- "One irrevocable duty": democrats and reapportionment, 1889-1893
- "The time has come to make a precedent": Wisconsin, 1891-1892
- "Fought out in the courts": Michigan, 1891-1893
- "Partisanship has run riot": Indiana, 1892-1894
- "An ineradicable vice": Wisconsin, 1893-1896
- "The consequences of their own folly": Indiana, 1894-1898
- "A state of uncertainty": Illinois, 1893-1898
- "Our system of popular representative government": from chaos to control