Book Info enlarge picture Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)   Author: Gary W. Cox and Jonathan N. Katz ISBN: 0521001544 Format: Publish Date:                  Book Review The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s. Both state legislative and congressional districts were redrawn more comprehensively by far than at any previous time in our nation's history. Moreover, they changed what would happen at law should a state government fail to enact a new districting plan when one was legally required.