| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the AHR online. About 222 words from this article are provided below; about 580 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the American Historical Association, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time. AHA members can go to the AHA individual membership section to locate their member numbers.
If you are not a member of the American Historical Association, you can:: • Join the AHA and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the American Historical Review.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the American Historical Review (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the American Historical Review.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1 | The History Cooperative

Charles Kromkowski. Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700–1870. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xxxii, 451. $70.00.
Charles A. Kromkowski sets out an ambitious agenda: to bring together the methods of history and political science to explain when, why, and how rules of apportionment change. The problem of change in rules of apportionment can be simply stated: since existing rules of apportionment by definition favor those who currently hold power, what circumstances can lead such beneficiaries to instigate a process of change, whose outcome is at best uncertain? Kromkowski identifies three specific instances—the American Revolution, the replacement of the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution, and the Civil War—that resulted in significant changes in rules of apportionment. For each of these instances, he sets himself the goal of providing "analytically rigorous and historically realistic accounts of several creations, transformations, and breakdowns in the American political order."	1
In order to accomplish his goal, Kromkowski presents a discussion of the context in which each rule change occurred, a "micro-level" analysis of the roles specific actors played in the rule change, and then a game-theoretic look at each change, followed by a consideration of the ways in which the apportionment rule change became institutionalized.	. . .

There are about 580 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.