Is The House Of Representatives Too Small For Democracy?
The House of Representatives was designed to scale up with the population of the country. How does the current cap at 435 impact democracy?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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The House of Representatives was designed to scale up with the population of the country. How does the current cap at 435 impact democracy?
On Today's Show:
As part of a year-long series on ways of improving U.S. democracy, Danielle Allen, Washington Post contributing columnist, a political theorist at Harvard University, where she is James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the author of Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus (University of Chicago Press, 2022) and the forthcoming Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2023), proposes expanding the number of members of the House of Representatives.