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January 5, 2017 07:30 am PST
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Around the world, old, rural voters count more than young people in cities
In The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment inComparative Perspective, published in the British Journal of Political Science, two scholars from the University of Minnesota Department of Political Science document more than 20 industrial democracies where the votes of rural citizens -- who skew older and more conservative than their urban counterparts -- carry more weight than city-dwellers' votes. (more…)
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