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Book Synopsis Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U. S. House of Representatives by : Sarah J. Eckman
Download or read book Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U. S. House of Representatives written by Sarah J. Eckman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The census, apportionment, and redistricting are interrelated activities that affect representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional apportionment (or reapportionment) is the process of dividing seats for the House among the 50 states following the decennial census. Redistricting refers to the process that follows, in which states create new congressional districts or redraw existing district boundaries to adjust for population changes and/or changes in the number of House seats for the state. At times, Congress has passed or considered legislation addressing apportionment and redistricting processes under its broad authority to make law affecting House elections under Article I, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution.
Book Synopsis Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives by : Eckman
Download or read book Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives written by Eckman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Apportionment by : Laurence Frederick Schmeckebier
Download or read book Congressional Apportionment written by Laurence Frederick Schmeckebier and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976-02-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Standards for Congressional Districts (Apportionment) by : United States. Congress. House. Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Standards for Congressional Districts (Apportionment) written by United States. Congress. House. Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 10. Considers legislation to set standards for establishing congressional district boundaries.
Book Synopsis The House of Representatives by : Roland D. Orsino
Download or read book The House of Representatives written by Roland D. Orsino and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution requires that states be represented in the House of Representatives in accordance with their population. It also requires that each state have at least one Representative, and that there be no more than one Representative for every 30,000 persons. For the 2010 apportionment, this could have meant a House of Representatives as small as 50 or as large as 10,306 Representatives. This book examines apportioning seats in the House of Representatives among the states in proportion to state population as required by the Constitution, which appears to be a simple task. In fact, however, the Constitution presented Congress with issues that have provoked extended and recurring debate, which are discussed in this compilation.
Download or read book Party Lines written by Thomas E. Mann and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense. Recent Congressional elections fly in the face of those requirements, however, with a startling lack of competition, growing ideological polarization, and a fierce struggle between the parties to manipulate the electoral rules of the game. Party Lines addresses these problems head on in an authoritative and timely analysis of redistricting in the United States. The practice of state legislatures redrawing district lines after the decennial census has long been a controversial aspect of our governing system. Recent developments have added new urgency to earlier debates. The sorry spectacle of mid-decade partisan gerrymandering in Texas renewed public attention to the potential problems of redistricting, reinforcing the view that it is unfairly dominated by self-serving elected officials and parties. The perfunctory character of Congressional elections is another growing problem—in 2002, only four House incumbents were defeated in the general election, the lowest in American history. Despite a hotly contested presidential contest in 2004, that number increased by only three. In Pa rty Lines, eminent political analysts explain the legal and political history of redistricting since the one person–one vote revolution in the 1960s and place it in the larger context of American politics. The authors document the impact of redistricting on competition, polarization, and partisan fairness, and they assess the role technology played in the redistricting process. The final chapter analyzes options for reform, including most importantly the use of independent redistricting commissions as an alternative to the normal state legislative process. Redistricting reform is no panacea but it is a start toward ensuring that American voters still have the largest say in who will represent them. Contributors include Micah
Book Synopsis The Politics of Reapportionment by : Malcolm Jewell
Download or read book The Politics of Reapportionment written by Malcolm Jewell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, which may be found in The Politics of Reapportionment.Understanding the politics of apportionment may be broken down into four parts: What are the political factors that have caused the various states to follow differing courses in apportionment? What are the political consequences of these differences in apportionment? When a legislature is grappling with any reapportionment problem, what roles are played by the various political groups involved? What are the consequences of transferring this controversy out of the legislative arena?Jewell notes that a study of legislative apportionment is essential to an understanding of any representative system of government. In the U.S. the patterns of apportionment have vitally affected the nature of our state and national political institutions, and our political history has been marked by a number of colorful struggles over this issue. For these reasons, American political scientists have devoted more attention to apportionment than to many other problems of government.
Book Synopsis Apportionment of Representatives in Congress by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census
Download or read book Apportionment of Representatives in Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Redistricting by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Congressional Redistricting written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 8. Considers proposals to establish Federal standards for states in drawing congressional districts in response to Supreme Court ruling in Westburry v Sanders asserting the "one man one vote" principle.
Book Synopsis House of Representatives Apportionment Formula by : Royce Crocker
Download or read book House of Representatives Apportionment Formula written by Royce Crocker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Contents: (1) The House of Representatives Apportionment Formula: An Analysis of Proposals for Change and Their Impact on States: Introduction; Background; Apportionment Methods Defined: Hamilton-Vinton: Ranking Fractional Remainders; Rounding Methods; Changing the Formula: The Impact in 2011; (2) A Framework for Evaluating Apportionment Methods: Alternative Kinds of Tests; Fairness and Quota: Quota Representation; Fair Share; Implementing the ¿Great Compromise¿; (3) Summary and Overview. Figures and tables.
Book Synopsis The House of Representatives by : Roland D. Orsino
Download or read book The House of Representatives written by Roland D. Orsino and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reapportionment Politics by : Leroy Clyde Hardy
Download or read book Reapportionment Politics written by Leroy Clyde Hardy and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of re-apportionment in the United States. Fifty eight distinguished contributors show in a state-by-state format how re-apportionment has shaped the politics of the states, and how it continues to do so after a recent federal census. The balance of parties in both state and federal legislatures, the voice of minority groups, even the role of local governments can be manipulated by redistricting.
Book Synopsis Congressional Redistricting by : Kenneth P. Geisler
Download or read book Congressional Redistricting written by Kenneth P. Geisler and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 10 years, through the apportionment and redistricting processes within each state, Congress and the states attempt to create a U.S. House of Representatives that reflects a fair representation of the people of the United States. It is, generally, a complex, volatile, and highly political process, but one that, with a single exception, has occurred in various forms over 200 years and, for some, represents, along with free elections, the clearest indication that the United States is a representative democracy. This book provides an overview of the elements and considerations involved in Congressional redistricting with a focus on the Voting Rights Act; the apportionment formula; and the constitutionality of creating an at-large district.
Book Synopsis Standards for Congressional Districts (apportionment) Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 2, on H. R. 73 [and Others] June 24 and August 19, 1959 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Standards for Congressional Districts (apportionment) Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 2, on H. R. 73 [and Others] June 24 and August 19, 1959 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Apportionment of Representatives in Congress by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Download or read book Apportionment of Representatives in Congress written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (77) H.R. 2665.
Book Synopsis African Americans and the Politics of Congressional Redistricting by : Dewey M. Clayton
Download or read book African Americans and the Politics of Congressional Redistricting written by Dewey M. Clayton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed analysis of the politics of racial redistricting, a topic of particular concern in light of recent federal court cases. The book is divided into two parts. Part one examines the historical exclusion of blacks from the American political process and the politics behind congressional redistricting. The text focuses on partisan manoeuvering and assesses whose interests were being served. In particular, the book chronicles the legislative action (creation of majority black districts) in North Carolina and around the South. Part two shifts the focus to the myriad of legal battles that ensued as a result of the newly-created districts in North Carolina and around the South. Majority black districts have been dismantled in the Supreme Court. This has been due to the criticism of their "arbitrary" shape, and the notion that race was considered a predominant fact or in their design. Yet, irregularly-shaped majority white districts have not been accused of violating districting principles. This book purports that blacks were not elected to national office in large numbers prior to the creation of majority black districts, indicating the continuing need for race-conscious districting as a temporary solution to a complex problem.
Book Synopsis Does Redistricting Make a Difference? by : Mark E. Rush
Download or read book Does Redistricting Make a Difference? written by Mark E. Rush and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1812 the Jeffersonian-dominated Massachusetts legislature, with the approval of Governor Elbridge Gerry, split Essex County in an effort to dilute the strength of the Federalists. Noting the resemblance of the new, oddly shaped district to a well-known amphibian, a local newspaper dubbed the creation a "gerrymander." Less well known about this oft-recounted episode of American history, writes political scientist Mark Rush, is its outcome: in the ensuing election, the Federalists won the district anyway. Today, politically divisive redistricting--gerrymandering to some--still causes bitter reapportionment disputes, renewed threats of class action lawsuits, and legislative wrangling. In Does Redistricting Make a Difference? Rush offers a skeptical inquiry into this controversy and a critical assessment of the assumptions underlying current analyses of the redistricting process. He focuses on long-term voting results in redrawn districts and concludes that redistricting--at least given present criteria and guidelines--has little impact. By showing how difficult it is to perpetrate a successful partisan gerrymander, Rush challenges the notion that an electorate can be organized into Democratic and Republican "groups." He further questions the validity of current political research--and highly paid political consulting--undertaken on the assumption that such organization is feasible. Certain to provoke discussion and debate, Does Redistricting make a Difference? is a timely look at a topic as controversial today as it was in the days of Elbridge Gerry.