The Congressional Apportionment Game: Stalemate in the 1920s

• In Event: Structural Features of Legislatures and Their Consequences

Brief Overview

This paper tests whether representatives voted in favor of the apportionment in the 1920s that gave their state a larger proportion of seats (i.e., a larger vote share). In the one case in which they did not, there was strategic voting.

Author

• Keith L. Dougherty, University of Georgia