Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote - Hardcover

Balinski, Michel L; Young, H. Peyton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815700903 ISBN 13: 9780815700906

Verlag: Brookings Institution, 2001

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"The definitive account-and solution-of the 200-year-old apportionment problem. The book is political analysis at its best Edward Tufte, Yale University" --Edward Tufte, Yale University, 1/11/2001

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The issue of fair representation will take center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned based on the 2000 Census. Using U.S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for translating state populations -or vote totals of parties -into a fair allocation of congressional seats. They conclude that the current apportionment formula cheats the larger states in favor of the smaller, contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers and compromising the Supreme Court's ""one man, one vote"" rulings. Balinski and Young interweave the theoretical development with a rich historical account of controversies over representation, and show how many of these principles grew out of political contests in the course of United States history. The result is a work that is at once history, politics, and popular science. The book -updated with data from the 1980 and 1990 Census counts -vividly demonstrates that apportionment deals with the very substance of political power.

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• Verlag: Brookings Institution
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0815700903
• ISBN 13: 9780815700906
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192