Apportionment Matters
Fair Representation in the US House and Electoral College
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6324919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry J Gaines (0000-0003-3549-7611, Illinois Department of Public Health), Brian J Gaines, J A Jenkins (0000-0001-7426-3370, University of Virginia) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 849-857 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592709991848 |
| OpenAlex | W2171085988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
The 2000 presidential election made various electoral institutions—from ballot format to voting mechanisms—suddenly prominent in public debate. One institution that garnered little attention, but nonetheless affected the outcome, was apportionment. A few commentators, looking ahead to 2004, noticed that Bush would have won more comfortably had the apportionment based on the 2000 census already been in place for the 2000 election. Little attention, however, was paid to the method by which 1990 census data were used to generate the 1992–2000 apportionment, even though there are many ways to perform that allocation, the United States has used different methods over its history, and the precise algorithm turned out, in this instance, to matter. More generally, previous discussions of apportionment methods have neglected the point that allocation to states of US House seats simultaneously determines Electoral College weights. Since the Electoral College has built-in biases favoring small states, an apportionment method that partially offsets this bias might be justifiable. We revisit some criteria by which one might prefer one apportionment rule to another, in light of this double duty
Apportionment · Ballot · Census · Duty · Electoral college · House of Representatives · Institution · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Proportional representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Voting · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
One Person, How Many Votes? Demographic Distortions in United States Elections
Introduction and Comments
The Malapportionment of the US House of Representatives
Conflict over Congressional Reapportionment
Legal, Political Science, and Economics Approaches to Measuring Malapportionment
Are Presidential Inversions Inevitable? Comparing Eight Counterfactual Rules for Electing the U.S. President
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |