Typical examinations of the impact of reapportionment have taken a narrow time frame, focused on level of funding, and tried to survey all states. This article departs from the norm in that we look at a twenty-year history of a single state, Florida, and include, in addition to fiscal policies, regulatory policies and a discussion of party competition. Our intention is not to refute the importance of economic variables in state policymaking, but to redirect attention to the area where political vanables, like reapportionment, can have their greatest impact: on the geographic distribution of resources. We find that for party competition and for four policy areas-two fiscal and two regulatory-reapportionment had a significant impact.
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