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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.
Rikhil R Bhavnani
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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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The strategic determinants of legislative malapportionment in new democracies
Electoral Studies, 2023 The paper argues and shows with comparative empirical evidence that some autocratic characteristics of a country affect the level of malapportionment of its electoral system when democracy arrives. The final version of the paper was published in the Journal of Electoral Studies in 2023.
Ignacio Lago, Pedro Riera
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Bounds on Malapportionment [PDF]
Operations Research Letters, 2018 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
László A Koczy, Balázs R Sziklai
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Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian Style: The 2008 Electoral System [PDF]
East European Politics and Societies, 2017 Varieties of gerrymandering and malapportionment can appear not only in electoral systems where all legislative seats are allocated to plurality winners in single-member districts but also in proportional Single-Member District (SMD)–based electoral systems and in settings where multi-partisan committees draw the district boundaries.
Aurelian Giugăl +2 more
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Legislative Malapportionment and Institutional Persistence [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts, serves as a tool for predemocratic elites to preserve their political power and economic interests after a transition to democracy.
Bruhn, Miriam +2 more
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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.
Balázs R Sziklai, Károly Héberger
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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.
Elissa Sutlief +3 more
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Malapportionment and multilateral bargaining: An experiment [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2016 Abstract Members of collective decision-making bodies often represent communities that differ in population sizes. Malapportionment results when decision-making power is not allocated evenly across the population. Two well known institutions with malapportionment have emerged: bicameralism and weighted voting.
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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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