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The effects of malapportionment on economic development. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Does the unequal formal representation of people in legislatures ("malapportionment") affect development? Answering this question is critical for assessing the welfare costs of malapportionment.
Bhavnani RR.
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Malapportionment in Mongolian elections: Does institutional structure matter?
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 This article examines malapportionment in Mongolia from the introduction of a unicameral parliament in 1992 to the parliamentary elections in 2016. We especially address the question whether the level of malapportionment was significantly influenced by ...
Pavel Maskarinec
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Reputation-Sourced Authority and the Prospect of Unchecked Bureaucratic Power. [PDF]
Public Adm Rev, 2021 Abstract We explore the democratic implications of a reputational account of bureaucratic authority. While an influential literature has examined the relevance of reputation—and mutual exchange between principals and agents in public organizations generally—the normative implications of these insights have largely escaped scrutiny.
Bertelli AM, Busuioc M.
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Apportionment and districting by Sum of Ranking Differences. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Sum of Ranking Differences is an innovative statistical method that ranks competing solutions based on a reference point. The latter might arise naturally, or can be aggregated from the data.
Sziklai BR, Héberger K.
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The value of initiating a pursuit in temporal decision-making. [PDF]
ElifeReward-rate maximization is a prominent normative principle in behavioral ecology, neuroscience, economics, and AI. Here, we identify, compare, and analyze equations to maximize reward rate when assessing whether to initiate a pursuit.
Sutlief E +3 more
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Zastoupení členských zemí v Evropském parlamentu po volbách 2019 [The EU Member States’ Representation in the European Parliament after the 2019 Elections] [PDF]
Acta Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, 2020 Modern democratic political systems are hardly conceivable without political representation. This also applies to the European Union, a unique international organisation with a directly elected and fully-fledged assembly representing the EU citizens ...
Jakub Charvát
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Politics in Central Europe, 2023 In a democratic environment, political equality implies proportionality. Achieving this in an electoral setting can be complicated and unrealistic. The aim of this article is to investigate the logic, approach and method of creating constituencies in the
Bardovič Jakub, Mihálik And Jaroslav
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Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 429-435, June 2022., 2022 Using a folded seats‐votes curve, we examine partisan bias in the 2020 presidential election and compare it to partisan bias in the five other presidential elections in the twenty‐first century. 2020 and 2016 are extreme outliers with respect to the absolute magnitude of partisan bias in the Electoral College. In 2016, 2020, and 2000 bias runs in a pro‐
Jonathan Cervas, Bernard Grofman
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A Multi-Criteria Pen for Drawing Fair Districts: When Democratic and Demographic Fairness Matter
Mathematics, 2020 Electoral systems are modified by individuals who have incentives to bias the rules for their political advantage (i.e., gerrymandering). To prevent gerrymandering, legislative institutions can rely on mathematical tools to guarantee democratic fairness ...
Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda +4 more
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Western AustraliaJuly to December 2021
, 2022 Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 313-319, June 2022.
Martin Drum
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