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| :I had exactly the same mental reflex when reading this. Needs backing of some sort. ] 16:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC) | :I had exactly the same mental reflex when reading this. Needs backing of some sort. ] 16:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC) | ||
| :I think this subject could be really expanded. Historical facts and current debates could be useful. Also some of this stuff is POV.(] 16:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)) | |||
| == German example of malapportionment == | == German example of malapportionment == | ||
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Highway spending
- Senate malapportionment leads to great distortions in federal spending. As an example, in the 2005 federal highway bill, California and Texas, the two most populous states, only received $77 and $36 per person, respectively. Wyoming and Vermont, the two least populous states, received $269 and $544, respectively. Alaska, the state with the third lowest population, received $1,501 per person.
The assumption behind this statement is that federal highway spending ought to be proportional to the population of the state. Can this assumption be backed up by a citation? (I'm not saying that there wasn't some bad priorities involved, just that this may not be a good metric of it) Andjam 10:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- I had exactly the same mental reflex when reading this. Needs backing of some sort. Wouter Lievens 16:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- I think this subject could be really expanded. Historical facts and current debates could be useful. Also some of this stuff is POV.(Onefinalstep 16:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC))
German example of malapportionment
I think that in pre-world-war-I Germany, votes were divided up into three social classes, where each class got an equal amount of voting power even though the upper classes were smaller in population than the lower classes. If this can be verified, it'd be a possible example of malapportionment. Andjam 10:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)