Michael P. Olson is Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of numerous articles on American legislative and electoral politics, and has been published in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Black disfranchisement and legislative politics; 3. State legislative politics in the post-reconstructive South; 4. Destroying the Republican Party: Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee; 5. Early Deep South disfranchisement: Mississippi and South Carolina; 6. Post-populism disfranchisement: Alabama and Louisana; 7. Limited effects: Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, and Kentucky; 8. Conclusion.

'Scholars have long understood that Jim Crow robbed Black Americans of the vote, but only with Michael Olson's Stolen Representation have the costs to legislative activity and lawmaking become systematically clear.  With painstaking and detailed research showing that disfranchisement played out differently across southern states, Olson's revolutionary study reshapes our understanding of southern politics, democratic backsliding, and American political development.' Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University