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District Magnitude and Third Party Representation in Local Government
British Elections & Parties Review, 2001(2001). District magnitude and third party representation in local government. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 192-210.
Lawrence Ware +2 more
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The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women
British Journal of Political Science, 2022AbstractLegislators are likely to substantively represent groups to which they belong or with which they have some particular affinity. However, there are electoral systems that diminish this tendency and systems that promote it. More precisely, as district magnitude increases, representatives will be freer to focus on issues that are not decisive of ...
Brian F. Crisp, Patrick Cunha Silva
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District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: a comment and reinterpretation
Public Choice, 2012Drawing on new data that combine recorded votes from the Swiss National As- sembly with canton-level referendum results on identical legislative proposals, Portmann et al. (Public Choice 151:585-610, 2012) develop an innovative strategy to identify the ef- fect of district magnitude on the relationship between representatives and their constituents. We
John M. Carey, Simon Hix
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Proportional Representation, Large District Magnitude and Closed Lists
World Political Science, 2017AbstractChoosing the type of electoral system in new democracies has become a contested issue for social scientists as well as for political actors. Contrary to the state of the public debate on the issue, the article advances the position from a multidisciplinary standpoint (political science, historical sociology, economics) that proportional ...
Radek Buben, Karel Kouba
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Dynamic services, district magnitude, and the trilemma of the service economy
Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2020Advanced welfare countries have faced a mix of policy constraints regarding employment growth, income equality, and budget discipline in managing the challenges of deindustrialization, often dubbed as the trilemma of the service economy. Yet, puzzlingly enough, there are some welfare countries that could choose policy options outside of these policy ...
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The Impact of District Magnitude on the Legislative Behavior of State Representatives
Political Research Quarterly, 2017This study demonstrates that district magnitude (the number of officials elected from an electoral district) affects the behavioral choices and policymaking contributions of legislators. We theorize that legislators elected from districts of larger magnitudes focus much of their efforts on relatively low-cost, high-visibility activities that allow for
Jeffrey A. Taylor +2 more
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District magnitudes and the election of women to the Irish Dáil
Electoral Studies, 1987Abstract Previous research has suggested that electoral opportunities for women within proportional representation election systems may be directly related to district magnitudes. The fewer the seats apportioned to constituencies, it is argued, the less opportunities women will have to be nominated and elected.
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Does district magnitude matter? The case of Taiwan
Electoral Studies, 2016A sizable literature on electoral institutions argues that proportional electoral rules lead to higher voter turnout. However, recent work finds little evidence that the effect generalizes beyond western Europe and suggests that the theoretical arguments in the literature remain sparse, incomplete, and contradictory.
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Acute respiratory infections in Kangra district: Magnitude and current treatment practices
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1987A review of medical records of health centres in Kangra districts, Himachal Pradesh during October 1984 to September 1985 revealed that of 3,72,000 attendances, 18% were for acute respiratory infections (ARI) and 12% for diarrheal diseases. The annual incidence of visits for ARI among children below five was higher than that of general population (8·2 ...
J P, Narain, T D, Sharma
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The Impact of the District’s Magnitude on the Gender Composition of the Municipal Deputy Corps
Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost, 2021The purpose of the study is to explain the difference in the proportion of women deputies in the representative bodies of different municipalities. The author assesses the impact of the electoral districts size on the gender composition of municipal legislative bodies (dumas).
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