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Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems: How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias [PDF]

Journal of Politics, 2023
Proportional representation (PR) electoral systems have become widespread because they are expected to ensure the representation of interests with small or geographically inefficiently distributed voter bases. Yet in reality, most PR systems consist of a
André Walter, Patrick Emmenegger
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Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton [PDF]

Interfaces, 2011
Every few years, the city of Edmonton, Canada must review and evaluate changes to its electoral district boundaries. The review process that was completed in 2009 resulted in modifying the district plan from a six-ward system with two council members in each to a single-member 12-ward system.
Bozkaya, Burçin, Erkut, Erhan, Haight, Dan, Laporte, Gilbert   +3 more
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Ideological extremism and electoral design. Multimember versus single member districts

Public Choice, 2008
Ideological branding, Multimember districts, Electoral systems, Legislator ideology,
Anthony M Bertelli, Lilliard E Richardson   +1 more
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A District at a Time: Electoral Implications of Widespread Adoption of the Congressional District Method (or Congressional District) for Allocating Electors

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Currently, forty-eight states allocate Electors on a winner-take-all basis. Only Maine and Nebraska have a distinctive allocation mechanism, and in both of these cases, the winner of the state’s popular vote receives two Electors (those representing the senators) and the remaining Electors are distributed according to the popular vote in each of the ...
Anne Cizmar, Irwin L. Morris
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Intelligent electoral districting mechanism

2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2010
Traditionally, electoral districting was done manually which generally requires huge human resources and may introduce controversies. In this paper, we present an intelligent electoral districting mechanism that partitions the administrative districts systematically through the help of geographical information system and the techniques of artificial ...
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Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
The relationship between electoral systems and corruption in a large sample of contemporary democratic nations is analysed in this article. Whereas previous studies have shown that closed-list proportional representation is associated with greater (perceived) corruption than open-list PR, it is demonstrated here that this relationship fails to hold ...
ERIC C. C. CHANG, MIRIAM A. GOLDEN
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Electoral Competition in Heterogeneous Districts

Journal of Political Economy, 2005
This paper considers a model of elections in which parties compete simultaneously for multiple districts. I show that if districts are heterogeneous, then a unique two‐party equilibrium exists under plurality rule in which further entry is deterred. The equilibrium requires that parties choose noncentrist policy platforms and not converge to the ideal ...
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The Statistical Basis of Decisionmaking in Electoral Districting

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1976
This paper is concerned with procedures for dividing electorates into constituencies or electoral districts. Two traditions for drawing boundaries are identified, the British procedure of using neutral decisionmakers (Boundary Commissioners), and the American procedure which allows politicians to draw boundaries and thus leads to gerrymandering.
P J Taylor, G Gudgin
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Federal Electoral Districts - 1952

1958
Contained within the 3rd Edition (1957) of the Atlas of Canada is a main map that shows eleven condensed maps of the Federal Electoral Districts as created by the Representation Order circa 1952. There are 265 members representing 263 districts (Halifax and Queen's on Prince Edward Island each have two members).
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Electoral equilibrium in double member districts

Public Choice, 1984
The median-voter result, and the issue of stability in electoral competition generally, have been examined from a number of different perspectives. Out of all these examinations, however, only a few focus on institutional variables. This essay demonstrates that the median-voter result is robust under a significant institutional change that entails ...
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