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 >> ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
