caa a22 4500 388026642 CHVBK 20180307124939.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/420424 doi S1049096500048186 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/420424 Lijphart Arend University of California, San Diego Reforming the House: Three Moderately Radical Proposals [Elektronische Daten] [Arend Lijphart] Most observers of the United States House of Representatives undoubtedly agree that in many respects, large and small, the House does not perform its representative function very well. Not being an expert on the details and intricacies of House operations, I shall leave the smaller matters—such as incremental steps to reform the financing of election campaigns—to the specialists. Let me focus instead on three major characteristics that makes the House insufficiently representative: (1) its election by plurality, which does not provide adequate representation for minorities and minority views; (2) its election by an unrepresentative electorate, especially in midterm elections when only about one-third of the eligible voters make use of their right to vote; and (3) its comparatively small size of only 435 members. Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1998 PS: Political Science & Politics Cambridge University Press 31/1(1998-03), 10-13 1049-0965 31:1<10 1998 31 PSC https://doi.org/10.2307/420424 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/420424 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lijphart Arend University of California, San Diego NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- PS: Political Science & Politics Cambridge University Press 31/1(1998-03), 10-13 1049-0965 31:1<10 1998 31 PSC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge