Sizing Up the Senate also empirically demonstrates that small states receive more money per capita from the federal government by the spending formula for block grants.
It is a political science book, but its first chapter deals with the history of the creation of the Senate and argues that the Senate was created not by federalist theory but out of the refusal of small states to go along with the US Constitution unless they were granted equal suffrage in one body of the national legislature.
[1] Since 1999, the book has grown in popularity and is well known among congressional scholars, having been cited over 250 times in contemporary political science.
[5] Since 2018, the authors' findings have been applied to a variety of issue topics in the mainstream media.
Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-47006-7