Wednesday, May 11, 2011

It's official: over-represented states take home more cash

The negotiations that produced the US constitution left us with a democracy that's not quite representative. Even the most sparsely populated states have a single representative, and every state has ended up with two senators. That means that very populous states, like California, have fewer representatives per capita than places like Wyoming.

According to an analysis released by PNAS, being well represented pays off. States with the most representatives per capita also end up taking home the most federal cash per capita. And this isn't just a peculiarity of the US system; comparisons across nine countries shows that the same thing happens in Europe, South America, and Australia.

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