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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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Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2013 Este trabajo explora las causas de la desproporcionalidad —la diferencia entre el porcentaje de escaños y elporcentaje de votos obtenidos por un partido— en 18 países de América Latina, evaluando el efecto de cuatrovariables explicativas.
Kenneth Bunker, Patricio Navia
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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 pre-democratic elites to preserve their political power and ...
Gallego, Francisco +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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Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016. [PDF]
Am Econ J Appl Econ, 2022 Geruso M, Spears D, Talesara I.
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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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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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Malapportionment and Geographical Bases of Electoral Support in the Brazilian Senate
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and
Taeko Hiroi, Pedro Neiva
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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: "Studying Malapportionment Using α-Divergence"
This study shows the superiority of α-divergence over Samuels and Snyder’s MAL index for 73 countries, using Samuels and Snyder’s database. As α-divergence rests on a philosophical basis, that is, a microfoundation, we calculate the degree of ...
Wada, Junichiro, Kamahara, Yuta
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