One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America - Seabrook, Nick
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"Seabrook ... begins with the earliest gerrymandering ... before our nation's founding with the rigging of American elections for partisan and political gain and the election-meddling of the colonial governor of North Carolina (George Burrington) in retaliation against his critics. ... [He] writes of the Supreme Court's 20th century battles to curtail gerrymandering, first with Felix Frankfurter, the court's most outspoken advocate of judicial restraint. ... [He] explores the rise of the most partisan gerrymanders in U.S. history put in place by the Republican Party after the 2010 census. We…mehr

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"Seabrook ... begins with the earliest gerrymandering ... before our nation's founding with the rigging of American elections for partisan and political gain and the election-meddling of the colonial governor of North Carolina (George Burrington) in retaliation against his critics. ... [He] writes of the Supreme Court's 20th century battles to curtail gerrymandering, first with Felix Frankfurter, the court's most outspoken advocate of judicial restraint. ... [He] explores the rise of the most partisan gerrymanders in U.S. history put in place by the Republican Party after the 2010 census. We see how the battle has shifted to the states with REDMAP, the GOP's successful strategy to use control of state government and rig the results of state legislative and congressional elections for an entire decade"--
Autorenporträt
NICK SEABROOK is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida. The author of Drawing the Lines: Constraints on Gerrymandering in U.S. Politics, he lives in Jacksonville, Florida.