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The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective

British Journal of Political Science, 2001
Comparative 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, 2023
Abstract 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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The Consequences of Malapportionment: A Note of Caution

Social Forces, 1964
Malapportionmient 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 Malapportionment of the US House of Representatives: 1940–2020

PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022
ABSTRACTIn the latest round of the apportionment of the US House of Representatives following the 2020 Census, the State of New York lost a seat by an extremely small margin: if a mere 89 people were added to the state’s population of 20 million, the state would have kept the seat.
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Malapportionment and Public Policy in the States

The Journal of Politics, 1965
C OMMENTATORS ON STATE POLICY have often implied that malapportionment seriously affects the policy choices of state legislatures. In the literature on state politics it is frequently argued that there are important policy differences between urban and rural constituencies and that malapportionment, by over-representing rural interests, grants them a ...
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Disproportionality and malapportionment: Measuring electoral inequity

Electoral Studies, 1994
Abstract Political and social scientists often wish to measure inequity—the deviation of some actual distribution from a comparative standard distribution based on merit, need, or some other expectation. Measurements of income inequality have the longest history, but others can be identified, including two of direct interest in electoral studies ...
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Historical malapportionment and Victoria's Legislative Assembly

2023
Malapportionment—large differences between the numbers of voters in electorates—has existed at different points in Victoria’s history. While changes occurred in the 1950s, it was only the electoral reforms of the 1980s that greatly reduced the extent of malapportionment across Legislative Assembly districts.
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Malapportionment and Ideological Bias in Chilean Electoral Districts

Latin American Politics and Society, 2016
AbstractIn 2015, Chile fundamentally reformed the electoral system it had used since 1989. The old system was characterized by high levels of malapportionment, or differences across districts in the ratios of voters to representatives. In the first elections after redemocratization, malapportionment favored the ideological right, but elections since ...
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Malapportionment in Norway's parliamentary elections since 1921

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 1981
Knowles, R. D. 1981. Malapportionment in Norway's parliamentary elections since 1921. Norsk geogr. Tidsskr. Vol. 35, 147–159. Oslo. ISSN 0029-1951. A number of recent studies have analysed malapportionment in countries using single member constituencies. Malapportionment in countries using multi-member constituencies has been neglected.
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Malapportionment and the 2012 House of Representatives Election

2013
Japan is notorious for its malapportioned election districts. Japan’s Supreme Court measures this inequality by comparing the districts with the largest and smallest populations. For the 2012 election, the largest district, based on census estimates, was the Chiba 4th District with 494,141 registered voters and the smallest district was the Kochi 3rd ...
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