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A new perspective on the 1958 congressional election and 14th amendment apportionment
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Abstract Some mid-20th century civil rights activists strongly advocated enforcement of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect voting rights, but all attempts to enforce it failed due to the difficulty of quantifying the amount of voting abridgment in each state. Using publicly available data it ... view more
Some mid-20th century civil rights activists strongly advocated enforcement of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect voting rights, but all attempts to enforce it failed due to the difficulty of quantifying the amount of voting abridgment in each state. Using publicly available data it would have been possible to model voting abridgment and thus to reapportion congressional seats prior to the 1958 election. However, the results of a computer simulation suggest that the immediate effect of such reapportionment on civil rights reform would have been minimal.... view less
Keywords
simulation; voter turnout; election; suffrage; electoral system; right to vote; constitutional amendment; civil rights; election research; United States of America
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
fourteenth amendment; apportionment; nonlinear programming
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
22 p.
Status
Preprint; not reviewed