Reapportionment and Public Policy: State Legislators' Perspectives*

Saffell, David C.

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.1981.tb00994.x

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“…Our desire to focus on redistricting reflects both its political importance and its central role in a theory of democratic representation. The political impact is easily documented; individual legislators, for example, are well aware of effect of reapportionment on their own careers and on the balance of legislative power and public policy (Saffell 1982). The theoretic prominence of reapportionment stems from the fact that at the heart of the reapportionment process are conceptions of representation and democratic responsiveness.…”

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