Malapportionment and Judicial Power
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Legislative Malapportionment and Economic Outcomes:
This paper addresses the issue of the endogenous choice and persistence of legislative malapportionment and analyzes its economic consequences. Legislative malapportionment denotes a wide discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts. We first document that countries with higher lower chamber malapportionment have lower GDP per capita...
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