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Routledge
353 Pages
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Routledge
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The issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with apportionment is evidence of a failure of the political process in many states. A political solution to the problem requires better understanding and more accurate information about apportionment,... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, FOREWORD, PART ONE: POLITICAL PATTERNS IN APPORTIONMENT, PART TWO: RURAL CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATURE THROUGH APPORTIONMENT, 1. The California Senate: Sectional Conflict and Vox Populi, 2. Colorado: A Matter of Balance, 3. Florida: Politics and the Pork Choppers, 4. North Carolina: People or Pine Trees, 5. Kentucky: A Latent Issue, 6. Texas: Factions in a One-Party Setting, PART THREE: CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT AND PARTISAN DEADLOCK, 7. Equilibrium in Illinois: Frustration and Accommodation of the Parties, 8. Pennsylvania: The Limits of Power in a Divided Government, 9. Apportionment and Districting in Ohio: Components of Deadlock, PART FOUR: CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT UNDER ONE-PARTY CONTROL, 10. North Carolina: This Bill or Nothing, 11. West Virginia: Tradition and Partisan Advantage, 12. Maryland: Frustration of One-Party Control, PART FIVE: REAPPORTIONMENT AS A MEANS OF POLITICAL CONTROL, 13. New York: Constitutionally Republican, 14. California: Brutal Butchery of the Two-Party System?, PART SIX: BYPASSING THE LEGISLATURE, AN URBAN OPPORTUNITY, 15. Michigan Legislative Apportionment: Key to Constitutional Change, 16. Maryland: Judicial Challenge to Rural Control, 17. Tennessee: Inertia and the Courts, BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE, INDEX
Biography
Malcolm Jewell
