LEADER 04162nam 22006972 450 001 9910453024403321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-139-88901-X 010 $a1-139-79411-6 010 $a1-139-77672-X 010 $a1-139-77976-1 010 $a1-139-78370-X 010 $a1-139-14940-7 010 $a1-139-78275-4 010 $a1-283-71471-X 010 $a1-139-77824-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000708214 035 $a(EBL)1042505 035 $a(OCoLC)815970166 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756766 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420960 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756766 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10751533 035 $a(PQKB)10776557 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139149402 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1042505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10618635 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL402721 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000708214 100 $a20110822d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRepresentation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America $ethe politics of apportionment /$fPeter H. Argersinger$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 340 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-49835-X 311 $a1-107-02300-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aThis 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 apportionment in the Midwest, where a distinctive constitutional and electoral context shaped their course with momentous consequences. As the major parties alternated in effectively disenfranchising their opponents through gerrymanders, growing tensions challenged established patterns of political behaviour and precipitated intense and even dangerous disputes. Unprecedented judicial intervention overturned gerrymanders in stunning decisions that electrified the public but intensified rather than resolved political conflict and uncertainty. Ultimately, America's political ideal of representative democracy was frustrated by its own political institutions, including the courts, because their decisions against gerrymandering in the 1890s helped parties and legislatures entrench the practice as a basic and profoundly undemocratic feature of American politics in the twentieth century. 517 3 $aRepresentation & Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America 606 $aApportionment (Election law)$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aElection districts$zUnited States 606 $aRepresentative government and representation$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 0$aApportionment (Election law)$xHistory 615 0$aElection districts 615 0$aRepresentative government and representation$xHistory 676 $a328.73/0734509034 700 $aArgersinger$b Peter H.$01047604 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453024403321 996 $aRepresentation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America$92486176 997 $aUNINA