Jonathan Rodden

This panel discussion considered the possibilities for changing the rules of representation.

The session featured Professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University, Professor Jenna Bednar of the University of Michigan, and Professor Jonathan Rodden of Stanford University.

The session was chaired by Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender, and Social Policy at LSE.

Welcome back after that very nice lunch and our interesting morning.

Uh, she's Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.

She's written extensively on federalism and on polarization, and her current work, very appropriately for the panel, is focused on the ways that polarization undermines the norms for democratic robustness and the potential for reviving those norms.

Jonathan Rodden from Stanford, um, next to Jenna, has written extensively about American and comparative federalism.

More recently, he's focused on a number of broader topics in economic and political geography, uh, with special focus on the urban rural divide, which we've heard so much about so far.

Here we go.

Bill, I want to introduce our first guest today, Jonathan Rodden, who's a professor of political science at Stanford.

Jonathan spent his career studying how political geography shapes representation, works that culminated in a 2019 book, Why Cities Lose the Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide.

In addition, he served as an expert witness in multiple court cases related to voting rights and redistricting, written amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court, and drawn redistricting plans that were implemented by the courts.

Here we go.

Bill, I want to i- introduce our first guest today, uh, Jonathan Rodden, who's a professor of political science at Stanford.

Jonathan spent his career studying how political geography shapes representation, uh, works that culminated in a 2019 book, Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide.

Uh, in addition, he served as an expert witness in multiple court cases related to voting rights and redistricting, uh, written amicus briefs for the US Supreme Court, and drawn redistricting plans that were implemented by the courts.