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Political Theory and Empirical Studies on Malapportionment:

open access: yesThe Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association, 2015
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Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!

Electoral Studies, 2021
Abstract Existing studies on legislative malapportionment often conceptualize and measure this phenomenon with little regard to intertemporal variations and the malapportionment-generating process (MGP). Our conceptualization leads us to introduce a measure called α-divergence that can identify the vote inequality derived from various stages of MGP ...
Yuta Kamahara, Junichiro Wada
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Malapportionment and democracy: A curvilinear relationship

Electoral Studies, 2017
Abstract This article examines electoral malapportionment by illuminating the relationship between malapportionment level and democracy. Although a seminal study rejects this relationship, we argue that a logical and empirically significant relationship exists, which is curvilinear and is based on a framework focusing on incumbent politicians ...
Kian-Ming Ong, Yuko Kasuya, Kota Mori
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“Malapportionment”—Australian style

Politics (Kensington, N S W ), 1968
Joan Rydon
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Unequal votes, unequal violence: Malapportionment and election violence in India [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Peace Research, 2020
Elections held outside of advanced, industrialized democracies can turn violent because elites use coercion to demobilize political opponents. The literature has established that closely contested elections are associated with more violence.
Ursula Daxecker
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The origins of dual malapportionment: Long-run evidence from Argentina

open access: yesWorld Development
Legislative malapportionment often results from a credible commitment between elites from core urban regions and peripheral rural regions that favors the latter.
Victoria Paniagua
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Measuring Malapportionment

American Political Science Review, 1964
In addition to the legal and political implications of the case, the United States Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Carr brought sharply into public focus the technical problem of how to measure legislative malapportionment. The case itself exemplifies these various dimensions of the issue, for the majority opinion of Mr.
Glendon Schubert, Charles Press
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Measuring disproportionality, volatility and malapportionment: axiomatization and solutions

Social Choice and Welfare, 2008
The measurement of disproportionality, volatility and malapportionment often employ similar indices. Yet the debate on the issue of adequate measurement has remained open. We offer a formal and rigorous list of properties that roughly subsume those of Taagepera and Grofman (Party Polit 9(6):659–677, 2003). One of these properties, Dalton’s principle of
Moshe Koppel, Abraham Diskin
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Malapportionment and Geographical Bases of Electoral Support in the Brazilian Senate

open access: yesJournal of Politics in Latin America, 2013
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates ...
Taeko Hiroi, Pedro Neiva
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