{"619369":{"#nid":"619369","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Opinion: A bipartisan chance to improve representative democracy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENunn School Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EJoseph Bankoff\u003C\/strong\u003E wrote \u0026ldquo;\u003Cstrong\u003EOpinion: A Bipartisan Chance to Improve Representative Democracy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rdquo; which appeared in the \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E on March 15.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the most important Constitutional cases in 50 years about how we elect our representatives. In 1964, the Court decided Reynolds v. Sims requiring \u0026ldquo;one man \u0026ndash; one vote\u0026rdquo; to assure that those elected represented people, not real estate. By requiring voting districts with roughly the same number of voters, the Court assured that each citizen\u0026rsquo;s vote had the same power regardless of where they lived\u0026hellip;The issue now is both bipartisan and critically urgent. The partisan paralysis we have suffered for a generation is a direct result of this systemic evil \u0026ndash; one that has been gleefully used by both parties. And, as in 1964 \u0026ndash; Congress is unable to fix itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/opinion\/opinion-bipartisan-chance-improve-representative-democracy\/KN535nXdFC3VX9ZllrVkxN\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2019-03-18 16:04:08","changed_gmt":"2019-03-18 16:08:52","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/opinion\/opinion-bipartisan-chance-improve-representative-democracy\/KN535nXdFC3VX9ZllrVkxN\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"611593":{"id":"611593","type":"image","title":"Joe Bankoff","body":null,"created":"1537210647","gmt_created":"2018-09-17 18:57:27","changed":"1539020056","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 17:34:16","alt":"Joe Bankoff, chair of the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs","file":{"fid":"232828","name":"BankoffFacultyWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BankoffFacultyWeb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BankoffFacultyWeb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":110540,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/BankoffFacultyWeb_0.jpg?itok=XK_w1ZHg"}}},"media_ids":["611593"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"31391","name":"Joe Bankoff"},{"id":"10536","name":"Nunn School"},{"id":"180823","name":"gerrymandering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}