TOWARD FAIRER REPRESENTATION IN STATE LEGISLATURES

Representation in State Legislatures. IV. The Western States - jstor

ginning in I889. The conditions of state growth have here been unique. It is true that they have been de- veloped by incomers from the eastern states, ...

Fair Representation Voting - RepresentWomen

Proportional representation is the principle that a legislature should reflect all of the voters who elect them. Like-minded voters should be able to elect ...

How the Radical 'Independent State Legislature Theory' Could ...

This is the radical claim (“theory” is too generous a term) positing that the Constitution removes the normal checks on state legislatures when they regulate ...

State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy | The New Yorker

Jane Mayer writes about how gerrymandering has let unchecked Republicans pass extremist laws, even in moderate places like Ohio, ...

What the For the People Act Means for Redistricting

The For the People Act doesn't just make voting simpler—it makes voting fairer by outlawing the racial and partisan gerrymandering that ...

Strategy 1: Achieve Equality of Voice and Representation

1.1 Substantially enlarge the House of Representatives through federal legislation to make it and the Electoral College more representative of the nation's ...

Democracy & Abortion Access: How Underrepresentation of Women ...

When the Supreme Court handed down the damaging Dobbs decision, it did not just strip millions of people of their reproductive choices.

Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in ...

In this article, I examine the severity of young adults' underrepresentation in US state legislatures and explore how four institutional mechanisms help to ...

Text - H.R.7740 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Fair Representation ...

Requiring ranked choice voting for election of Senators and Representatives. Sec. 102. Applicability of enforcement provisions of Help America Vote Act of 2002.

What Voters Need to Know About the Independent State Legislature ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Moore v. Harper this December, where the court will consider a fringe legal theory that ...

- THE INDEPENDENT STATE LEGISLATURE THEORY AND ITS ...

[House Hearing, 117 Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] THE INDEPENDENT STATE LEGISLATURE THEORY AND ITS POTENTIAL TO DISRUPT OUR ...

Can Commissions Make Districting Fairer? - New America

Democrats and Republicans live separately. And under single-member districts, both partisan fairness and district competitiveness are extremely sensitive to ...

State Legislative Policymaking in an Age of Political Polarization

This report summarizes the results of a study of political polarization in state legislatures and its effects on policymaking.

It's Time To Care About State Legislatures | Sister District Project

Democrats are a Majority of the Country, but They Have Very Little Electoral Power. To Understand How This is Possible, Look to the States.

Fair Representation in Local Government

This Article focuses on my work in Illinois to use the Voting Rights Act1 (VRA) to improve minority representation at the local level, but the themes and ...

Independent State Legislature Theory Undermines Elections ...

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of this theory, the laws state legislatures pass to regulate federal elections would become immune from the ...

House Democrats Reintroduce Fair Representation Act - Don Beyer

Election reform legislation would end political gerrymandering, instate ranked choice voting for Congressional elections.

Fair Representation - The Joyce Foundation

As such, the Foundation invests in redistricting reform to remedy the severe gerrymandering prevalent in Great Lakes states and to identify solutions to…

Legislatures: Explaining Variations in Campaign Spending - jstor

while public funding leads to higher levels of challenger spending. Conclusions. Campaign finance laws affect spending levels, but candidate- and district-level ...

Why the House of Representatives Must Be Expanded and How ...

Larger and, in some cases, unequal sized congressional districts have left Americans with worse representation, including in the Electoral College, which ...