The U.S. House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 members for almost a century, and in that time the nation's population has grown by more than 200 percent. With the number of citizens represented by each House member now dramatically larger, is a major consequence of this historical disparity a diminished quality of representation? Brian Frederick uses empirical data to scrutinize whether representation has been undermined by keeping a ceiling on the number of seats available in the House. He examines the influence of constituency size on several metrics of representation-including estimating the effects on electoral competition, policy responsiveness, and citizen contact with and approval of their representatives-and argues that now is the time for the House to be increased in order to better represent a rapidly growing country.
Titel
Congressional Representation & Constituents
Untertitel
The Case for Increasing the U.S. House of Representatives
Autor
EAN
9780203864616
ISBN
978-0-203-86461-6
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
09.12.2009
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Anzahl Seiten
184
Jahr
2009
Untertitel
Englisch
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