Distinguished Professor Emeritus Matthew Shugart featured in 538

How The House Got Stuck At 435 Seats

The US House has had 435 members since the 1920s even as the country's population has approximately tripled. The article includes references to several of Shugart's works on how the size of a country's representative assembly tends to be related to the population--the so-called Cube Root Law--which would suggest that the US House would function better with approximately 690 Representatives.

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