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Legislative Malapportionment and institutional persistence [PDF]
This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts, serves as a tool for predemocratic elites to preserve their political power and ...
Massimiliano Onorato +2 more
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Replication Data for: 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).
Kasuya, Yuko +2 more
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HOW THE SEATS ARE ALLOCATED IN THE ELECTORAL CONSTITUENCIES?
Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2018 The process of allocation of seats to constituencies1 in every country is usually defined as a process of translating votes into seats. The process itself requires protection of the principle of equality (equal weight of votes) and equal distribution
Tanja Karakamisheva Jovanovska Тања Каракамишева Јовановска
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Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation [PDF]
This article analyzes the quantitative (mechanical) effects and qualitative (perceptions) effects on political representation of the election of two separate chambers in Latin America’s bicameral systems.
Francisco Sánchez, Detlef Nolte
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LA FALACIA DEL PRINCIPIO 'UNA PERSONA, UN VOTO' EN LA ELECCIÓN DE LOS CONSEJEROS REGIONALES EN CHILE
Universum, 2008 En Chile, las iniciativas a favor de la descentralización han sido tímidas e insuficientes en parte por la compleja tensión entre un discurso a favor de la participación y una realidad de incentivos que hace difícil al gobierno central renunciar a ...
Mauricio Morales Quiroga +1 more
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One Person, How Many Votes? Demographic Distortions in United States Elections
Statistics and Public PolicyRepresentative democracy in the United States relies on election systems that transmit votes into representatives in three key bodies: the two chambers of the federal legislature (House of Representatives and Senate) and the Electoral College, which ...
Lee Kennedy-Shaffer
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Replication Data for "Malapportionment and Ideological Bias in Chilean Electoral Districts"
In 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.
Carey, John M.
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Replication data for Measuring malapportionment, boundary-delimitation, and turnout effects in multi-party ...
Magar, Eric, Altman, Micah
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Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016. [PDF]
Am Econ J Appl Econ, 2022 Geruso M, Spears D, Talesara I.
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, 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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