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Apportionment
  

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Below are additional resources on Apportionment

 
Fair Representation: Appendix B

Representative Populations and Apportionments for Twenty-Two United States Census,
1791—2000:
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/data/Balinski_Apportionment.xls
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Notes on Balinski & Young’s “Proposition 3.8”
TTO Supplement Explaining the Proposition stated on Page 175 of Fair Representation.
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/data/Balinksi_Prop3-8.xls
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The House Apportionment Formula in Theory and Practice

CRS Report for Congress; October 10, 2000 (#RL30711):
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/documents/CRS_OCT2000.pdf
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The House of Representatives Apportionment Formula: An Analysis of Proposals for Change and Their Impact on States
CRS Report for Congress; August 10, 2001 (#RL31074):
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/documents/CRS_AUG2001.pdf
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Supplement: Alternate Methods for Measuring Equality of District Sizes
TTO Supplemental Analysis of Table 4 (page CRS-20)
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/documents/TTO_CRS_RL31074.pdf
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Getting the Math Right: Why California Has Too Many Seats in the House of Representatives
Paul H. Edelman, Vanderbilt University Law School Public Law & Legal Theory
March 2006; Volume 59, No. 2 (pages 297-346)
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/documents/Edelman_MAR2006.pdf
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Apportioment Resources on the WWW
 

Population Base for Apportionment: 1790-2000
Professor Margo J. Anderson's resource page provides a wealth of information:
http://www.uwm.edu/~margo/

In particular, http://www.uwm.edu/~margo/apport/datasets.htm provides a spreadsheet containing the population values used for apportionment.


U.S. Census Bureau Congressional Apportionment
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/apportionment/index.html


Posted 11-July-2008
 
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