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

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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The issue of fair representation has taken center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned as a result of the 2000 census. Using U.S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for a fair allocation of congressional seats.

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

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Michel L. Balinski is the former director of the Laboratoire d'Econometrie of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the founding editor of the journal Mathematical Programming. and is a noted authority on mathematical optimization and operations research. H. Peyton Young is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and Scott and Barbara Black professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several books, including Individual Strategy and Social Structure (Princeton, 1998) and Equity in Theory and Practice (Princeton, 1994).