Pundits have observed that if so many incumbents are returned to
Congress to each election by such wide margins, perhaps we should
look for ways to increase competitiveness - a centerpiece to the
American way of life - through redistricting. Do competitive
elections increase voter satisfaction? How does voting for a losing
candidate affect voters' attitudes toward government? The
not-so-surprising conclusion is that losing voters are less
satisfied with Congress and their Representative, but the
implications for the way in which we draw congressional and state
legislative districts are less straightforward. Redistricting and
Representation argues that competition in general elections is not
the sine qua non of healthy democracy, and that it in fact
contributes to the low levels of approval of Congress and its
members. Brunell makes the case for a radical departure from
traditional approaches to redistricting - arguing that we need to
"pack" districts with as many like-minded partisans as possible,
maximizing the number of winning voters, not losers.
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