Periodic Discordance Between Vote Equality and Representational Equality in the United States

摘要: American democracy has two central values that are often in tension: vote equality, each equal influence, and representational elected official represents numbers of people. The electoral standard “one person, one vote” ensures equality. This relationship fails, however, under certain demographic conditions, namely, when a large, non-enfranchised population resides unevenly across jurisdictions. Then, equality is preserved violated. Prior to women’s suffrage, for example, western states had relatively fewer women than the remainder country, contributing gross inequality, though rectified through extension franchise. Given recent high rates immigration some states, I ask whether tension. find they are, quantify consequences this disjuncture at 13 House seats 2010.