The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective

By David J. Samuels, Richard Snyder. British Journal of Political Science, 2001

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Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States (2002, background): “It is the norm in federal systems, and it is common among emerging democracies (Samuels and Snyder 2000).”
Local Favoritism in At-Large Proportional Representation Systems (2016, background): “Note that while this electoral rule made the electoral system malapportioned (Samuels and Snyder, 2001) in the sense that less populated municipalities would occupy a disproportional share of seats, it did not affect the degree of proportionality in terms of party representation.”
MADISON IN BAGHDAD?: Decentralization and Federalism in Comparative Politics (2006, background): “Echoing research on the United States (Lee & Oppenheimer 1999, Ansolabehere et al. 2003), Stepan (1999) and Samuels & Snyder (2001) have underscored how seriously overrepresentative most federal legislative bodies are.”
A Rentier Theory of Subnational Regimes: Fiscal Federalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in the Argentine Provinces (2010, neutral): “55 Samuels and Snyder 2001.”
The economic effects of federalism and decentralization—a cross-country assessment (2010, neutral): “The final possibly mitigating factor has to do with an institutional detail of many federations: their constituent governments are often represented in an upper chamber in which sparsely populated regions are often overrepresented (Samuels and Snyder 2001).”