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Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 548-562, September 2026.ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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Disproportionality in Geographic Representation
British Journal of Political ScienceWe theoretically develop and empirically study the concept of geographic representation. We identify an overlooked aspect of (mis)representation in electoral systems: the degree to which within parties, voters residing in some districts are ...
Orit Kedar, Yair Amitai, Gilad Hurvitz
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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia
Southern Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 4, Page 1156-1188, April 2026.Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Griffith Law Review, 2009 This article revisits the zonal malapportionment and ‘Johrymander’ endemic in Queensland’s electoral system before the Fitzgerald Inquiry and examines how reform was won. Fitzgerald spent little time justifying his intuition that an unfair electoral system eroded accountability, and devolved to the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission (EARC ...
Orr, Graeme, Levy, Ron
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Frontiers in SociologyWhen India’s five-decade freeze on legislative seat allocation expires with the 2026 census, the ensuing delimitation will force a choice the Constitution has so far deferred: between the equal-suffrage command of “one person, one vote” and the federal ...
Kavali Munisekhar, Bangalore Morarji
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Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations
Latin American Research Review, 2017 Latin America’s largest federations have significantly reduced their levels of income inequality in recent years, perhaps reflecting a structural change toward egalitarianism.
Pablo Beramendi +2 more
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Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 4, November 2025.ABSTRACT How do incumbents in the US Congress turn federally funded district projects into electoral gains? Clarifying the connection between federal spending and congressional elections is critical for understanding the institution, as distributive benefits are theorized to enhance representation and facilitate broader policymaking.
Peter T. McLaughlin
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Degressive Representation in the European Parliament
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2019 The paper presents a diachronic analysis of the apportionment of seats in the European Parliament from its foundation to the present and the upcoming European elections.
Jakub Charvát
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Inequalities in place‐based representation: Looking inside electoral districts
European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 1165-1188, August 2025.Abstract Do representatives provide fair and proportional representation to each place in their district or, rather, do they favour some places, creating winners and losers of representation? While the impact of geography on representation has been extensively examined in majoritarian systems, we know little about the geographical losers of ...
MAFALDA PRATAS +2 more
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Closer to the people? Determinants of citizen–MP contact in Africa
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.Abstract In this paper, we investigate the determinants of contact between citizens and Members of Parliament (MPs) in Africa by combining theories of contact developed in advanced Western democracies with theories of clientelism developed in the Global South.
Leila Demarest, Wouter Veenendaal
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