Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Politics of Apportionment

by Peter H. Argersinger

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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 fierce struggles over apportionment in the Midwest, where a distinctive constitutional and electoral context shaped their course with momentous consequences. As the major parties alternated...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:110749835X

ISBN13:9781107498358

Release Date:February 2015

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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