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The Galician electoral system: to reform, or not to reform, that is the question
Revista de Derecho Político, 2018 : Since Galicia reached its political autonomy until the last elections of September of 2016, ten regional elections of the representatives for the Galician Parliament have been held.
Carlos Fernández Esquer +1 more
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District Populations and Partisan Bias
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.ABSTRACT We investigate whether the differing population sizes of legislative districts affect the ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering. We conjecture that larger populations facilitate partisan gerrymandering by providing mapmakers with more “raw material” to manipulate, and this might make such districts less compact.
Barry C. Burden, Veronica J. Judson
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, 2023 Malapportionment is considered a type of political inequality. The malapportionment-generating process (MGP) can be divided into demographic and political processes.
Kamahara, Yuta
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Legislative Malapportionment and Disproportionality: reforms to improve Panama’s democratic governance [PDF]
, 2021 Panama’s electoral reality demonstrates legislative malapportionment and electoraldisproportionality. Those distortions are reflected in Panamanian democratic institutions. Forinstance, the current composition of Panama’s Legislature does not comply with
Wood Núñez, Hugo
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Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 186-215, June 2025.ABSTRACT Japan is an intriguing case in the literature of judicial independence because of the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) long‐lasting one‐party dominance in government—which, in theory, leads to low independence. Although scholars have found plentiful anecdotal observations implying the LDP's judicial control, quantitative evidence remains ...
Hirofumi Miwa
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MathematicsThis paper presents a mathematical programming model to simultaneously create districts and allocate seats in Chile’s Chamber of Deputies, improving representativeness. In addition, it explicitly incorporates constraints that ensure the contiguity of the
Rodrigo Rebolledo +4 more
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 18-35, March 2025.Seachanging and the expansion of suburbia led to important changes in Australia's human geography during the second half of the twentieth century. However, the implications of domestic migration on electoral politics have received only limited study. The Central Coast of New South Wales was one place where these two patterns of movement converged and ...
Chris Beer
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PARADOXES OF FEDERALISM?: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND FISICAL DECENTRALIZATION IN ARGENTINA AND SPAIN [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2010 This paper suggests a putative paradox of federalism, namely that formalfederal polities, which are normally based on strong bicameralism, can at timesbe less effective than more loose, yet decentralizing unitary systems in deepeningfiscal ...
Jorge P. Gordin
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Inequality in Public Provision of Healthcare: Do Fiscal Transfers Matter?
Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 24, Issue 4, November 2024.ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate the inequality in the public provision of healthcare in India and assess whether states are converging over time. We locate the equalization of public provision within the framework of fiscal federalism. Departing from previous work, we gauge disparity in public provision by scrutinizing the provision in terms of ...
K. S. Harikrishnan +1 more
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La desigualdad del voto en Argentina
Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 1999 Este trabajo reconoce la diferencia lógica y analítica del malapportionment (MAP)' respecto de la des proporcionalidad. Usualmente, ambos fenómenos son etiquetados bajo el erróneo concepto de desproporcionalidad, lo que impide analizar los vínculos ...
Diego Reynoso
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