[EM] Minmax under-representaton causes small-bias

[RLSuter at aol.com]

Anyone who wants to talk credibly and constructively about Senate
representation needs to read a pathbreaking and decades overdue
book about the subject by two political scientists: "Sizing Up the
Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation"
by Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, U. of Chicago
Press, 1999.

Mathematical analyses of this issue that are not informed and
tempered by a good understanding of the issue's history and
political consequences are close to worthless, if not worse than
worthless in that they muddy the issue and are used to justify
one of the most undemocratic aspects of the U.S. political
system and the least representative legislative body of any
major nation (and possibly any nation) in the world.

-Ralph Suter

<<  Here's the link to the data supporting the fact that the defacto super 
 proportional representation of our small states is not enough to make 
 up for their Banzhaf Voting Power deficiency:
 
 http://www.cs.unc.edu/~livingst/Banzhaf/#results
 
 Thanks,
 
 Forest >>