Daniel O. Prosterman, “Defining Democracy: Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City” (Oxford UP, 2013)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Dec 20, 2014 · 59m

Daniel Prosterman‘s new book Defining Democracy:Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City (Oxford University Press, 2013) investigates a neglected topic in U.S. history: the occasional efforts by reformers over the years to bring proportional representation to America. No democracy in the world today is less representative by the standard of “one person, one vote.” (In 2000, three states with more than a quarter of the population, had just six Senators, for example. The seventeen least populous states, with seven percent of the population, had thirty-four.) This is actually…