[EL] After impeachment and removal

[Benjamin Forest, Prof.]

As long as we’ve raised the issue of Senatorial representation, allow me some self-promotion. I have a recent piece in Political Geography discussing the possibility of Senatorial reform to reduce its population/representation imbalance.

Forest, Benjamin (2019) “Reforming the US Senate: Original intent and representational inequality” Guest editorial (reviewed). Political Geography 74: 102011.

The journal link is here (behind a subscription wall):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.04.003

Or the pre-reviewed, open-access version here:

http://www.benjaminforest.info/Docs/Forest-Reform%20of%20the%20US%20Senate.pdf

Ben

On Oct 28, 2019, at 7:23 PM, D. A. Holtzman <d at LAvoteFIRE.org<mailto:d at LAvoteFIRE.org>> wrote:

If you want to assess the fairness of U.S. Senate actions vis-à-vis the principle of majority rule, make yourself a spreadsheet with the decennial U.S. Census counts for each state, and assign one-half of each state’s population to each of its Senators.  The Senate’s population base is the population of the fifty states.  With your spreadsheet, then, you can calculate the percentage of the “Senate Population Base” (SPB) whose Senators voted for or against a particular action.


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Benjamin Forest
Associate Professor                |  Professeur agrégé
Undergraduate Affairs Chair        |  Chaire affaires de premier cycle

Department of Geography            |  Département de géographie
Member, Centre for the Study       |  Chercheur, Centre pour l'étude de la
of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)   |  citoyenneté démocratique (CÉCD)
Associate Member, Department of    |  Membre associé, département de
Political Science                  |  science politique

McGill University                  |  Université McGill
Department of Geography            |  Département de géographie
805 Sherbrooke Street West         |  805, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9           |  Montréal (Quebec) H3A 0B9
Canada                             |  Canada

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