[EM] U.S. Congressional Elections, 1788-1997 book

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A new book---

U.S. Congressional Elections, 1788-1997 by Michael J. Dubin

(published 1998 by McFarland and Co., Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, N.C. 28640, 
(800) 253-2187; hard-cover, 1005 pp., $235 plus shipping).  

See the book review in Ballot Access News, April 3, 1999, p. 4.

Due to the cost, it will probably be only in major public and university 
libraries.   I suggest that interested folks write to McFarland and Co. and 
try to get them to have a CD-ROM version so that more folks can see how evil 
the U.S. Representative district gerrymanders were in the 1788 -1964 
elections (with their evil effects in U.S. law making).

Since the case of Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), such gerrymanders 
systematically produce around 30 percent indirect minority rule in the U.S. 
House of Representatives (a plurality of the votes in a bare majority of the 
districts).

The remedy remains- proportional representation to produce both indirect 
majority rule and minority representation.