Author: Nelson Polsby
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: 1970s, reapportionment
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1971-09-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520018850
ISBN-13: 9780520018853

Author: Charles W. Eagles
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: rural, conflict, 1920s, urban, reapportionment, delayed, congressional, democracy
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 082033622X
ISBN-13: 9780820336220

Historians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans erupted to intensify and influence political conflict in the decade. In Democracy Delayed, Charles W. Eagles uses the issue of congressional reapportionment to examine politics in the 1920s, in particular to test the urban-rural thesis. After the 1920 census, the United States Congress for the first time failed to reapportion the House of Representatives as required by the Constitution. The 1920 enumeration showed that for t