Nathaniel Persily, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Nathaniel Persily is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also has a "secondary appointment" with the University's Political Science Department.

Professor Persily is enjoying some special notoriety today as the author of today's featured quotation in the well-regarded pages of the New York Times, where he is featured for having said, in an article by Times reporter Adam Nagourney entitled "States See Growing Campaign to Change Redistricting Laws, that "There is a problem when the turnover in the United States House of Representatives is lower than it was in the Soviet Politburo."

Figuring that Professor Persily probably had additional points to make about an issue which he had so pithily referenced in this quotation, American Politics Today conducted a phone interview with him today in which he was able to elaborate on this increasingly-criticized "representation malfunction" at the core of contemporary American politics.

You can listen to that conversation with Professor Persily by clicking here.