Title

Making Our Congressional Elections More Competitive: A Proposal for a Limited Number of Statewide At Large Elections in Our More Populous States

Abstract

Competitive elections for the House of Representatives are at an all time low. Law professors, political scientists and political analysts all along the political spectrum believe that the current situation not only makes for unaccountable legislators and an uneducated electorate but is also slowly poisoning our politics by making government needlessly ideological and partisan. Unfortunately, most of the proposed remedies call for reforms at the state level that in any event do not hold out the prospect of changing the current pattern in the future. This article proposes federal legislation to deal with this problem through the creation of statewide at large elections in our more populous states.

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Law and Politics | Law and Society | Legislation

Date of this Version

May 2006