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Malapportionment as a Factor Associated With Islandness: Three Archipelagos Compared
Island Studies JournalThis study examines the relationship between malapportionment and islandness in three European archipelagos (Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Azores), employing a comparative analysis of electoral systems.
Miguel Carranza Guasch
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Legislative Malapportionment and the Politicization of Germany's Intergovernmental Transfer System [PDF]
Public Finance Review, 2005 Legislative bargaining theory suggests that fiscal transfers among member states of a federation are determined to a substantial degree by political representation effects. Malapportionment of the states'population in the legislature is claimed to lead to disproportional benefits of overrepresented states.
Hans Pitlik +2 more
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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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Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it! [PDF]
Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!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 alpha-divergence that can identify the vote inequality derived from various stages of MGP.
Kasuya, Yuko +2 more
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Malapportionment and Judicial Power [PDF]
The Yale Law Journal, 1962 The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Baker v. Carr promises to be one of themost important of the century. Like the segregation decisions, it brings constitutionalprinciples and judicial institutions to the solution of one of the fundamentalproblems of ...
Emerson, Thomas I.
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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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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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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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Does malapportionment affect light output?
, 2021 Does malapportionment affect light output?
Rikhil R. Bhavnani (11778260)
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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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