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A More Representative United States House of Representatives?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Joseph F. Zimmerman  and
Wilma Rule
Joseph F. Zimmerman
Affiliation:
SUNY-Albany
Wilma Rule
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Reno
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The unrepresentativeness of the U.S. House of Representatives–in terms of ethnicity, gender, race, and socioeconomic status—and its nearly closed system for election have generated questions about the legitimacy and authority of the House as an institution which “represents’ citizens and whether the membership of the House should reflect the citizenry at-large. The articles collected for this symposium offer answers to some of these questions.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 31 , Issue 1: 30th Anniversary Issue , March 1998 , pp. 5 - 10
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1998

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