Representation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America
Subtitle: the politics of apportionment
By: Peter H. Argersinger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781107023000
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; Representative government and representation; Apportionment (Election law); HISTORY / United States / General; United States. Congress. House; Election districts; History
Description: "This book examines fierce conflicts over apportionment and gerrymandering in the late nineteenth-century Midwest"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. "Injustices and inequities": the politics of apportionment, 1870-1889; 2. "One irrevocable duty": democrats and reapportionment, 1889-1893; 3. "The time has come to make a precedent": Wisconsin, 1891-1892; 4. "Fought out in the courts": Michigan, 1891-1892; 5. "Partisanship has run riot": Indiana, 1892-1894; 6. "An ineradicable vice": Wisconsin, 1893-1896; 7. "The consequences of their own folly": Indiana, 1894-1898; 8. "A state of uncertainty": Illinois, 1893-1898; 9. "Our system of representative government": from chaos to control.