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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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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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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.
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Malapportionment and Geographical Bases of Electoral Support in the Brazilian Senate
Journal 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 clientelism and
Pedro Neiva, Taeko Hiroi
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The origins of dual malapportionment: Long-run evidence from Argentina
World DevelopmentLegislative 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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The Conservative Policy Bias of US Senate Malapportionment
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022ABSTRACTThe US Senate is unique in the United States and rare internationally for its total disregard of population differences among its representational units. To analyze malapportionment’s policy impact, we devised a hypothetical reapportionment scheme that more closely approximates state population but remains favorable to small states.
Richard Johnson, Lisa L. Miller
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Measuring disproportionality, volatility and malapportionment: axiomatization and solutions
Social Choice and Welfare, 2008The 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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The Consequences of Malapportionment: A Note of Caution
Social Forces, 1964Malapportionmient of state legislatures has often been blamed for a miscellany of ills in state government. Three indices of malapportionment are constructed and used in a correlational analysis to test whether malapportionment has been associated with some of the ills complained of.
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The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective
British Journal of Political Science, 2001Comparative studies of electoral institutions have largely neglected a fundamental characteristic of most of the world's electoral systems: malapportionment. This article provides a method for measuring malapportionment in different types of electoral systems, calculates levels of malapportionment in seventy-eight countries, and employs statistical ...
DAVID SAMUELS, RICHARD SNYDER
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Does Malapportionment Favor the Republican Party?
The Forum, 2023Abstract This paper examines electoral bias within US politics, including as it relates to malapportionment in the US Senate and Electoral College. Specifically, with the Republican Party gaining significant support in rural areas and the Democratic Party becoming concentrated in urban areas, there is concern that
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