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Axioms and Divisor Methods for a Generalized Apportionment Problem with Relative Equality
Mathematics, 2023 The allocation of seats in a legislative body to groups based on their size is a crucial issue in legal and political studies. However, recent findings suggest that an optimal allocation of seats may not be proportional to the size of the groups.
Wenruo Lyu, Liang Zhao
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We propose that leaders play a more important role in voters’ party sympathy in proportional representation systems (PR) than previous research has suggested. Voters, from the 2018 Swedish General Election, were in an experiment asked to describe leaders
Annika Fredén, Sverker Sikström
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Election Reform and Women’s Representation: Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S.
Politics and Governance, 2021 Ranked choice voting first gained a foothold in the U.S. during the Progressive Movement in the 20th century as calls for electoral reforms grew. Ranked choice voting was implemented in many cities across the U.S. in both single- and multi-seat districts.
Cynthia Richie Terrell +2 more
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Proportional Representation with Uncertainty [PDF]
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2014 We introduce a model with strategic voting in a parliamentary election with proportional representation and uncertainty about voters’ preferences. In any equilibrium of the model, most voters only vote for those parties whose positions are extreme. In the resulting parliament, a consensus government forms and the policy maximizing the sum of utilities ...
De Sinopoli, Francesco +3 more
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Criteria for Proportional Representation [PDF]
Operations Research, 1979 We investigate methods to allocate seats in proportional representation systems in terms of several underlying common-sense properties. In particular, the idea of stability is introduced, and the method of Jefferson (or d'Hondt) is characterized.
Balinski, M.L., Young, H.P.
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Party Formation and Coalitional Bargaining in a Model of Proportional Representation
Games, 2022 We study a game theoretic model of a parliamentary democracy under proportional representation where ideologically motivated citizen groups form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed.
Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Mandar Oak
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REVIEW OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN SELECTED COUNTRIES IN 2020 [PDF]
Revista Română de Geografie Politică, 2020 A large number of different electoral systems operate in the world in 2020. The main types of electoral systems are majoritarian, mixed and proportional, but the division is imperfect.
Bartłomiej KULAS
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The Adoption of Proportional Representation [PDF]
The Journal of Politics, 2012 The debate between economic and political explanations of the adoption of proportional representation (PR) has occupied an important place in recent years. The existing tests of these competing explanations have generated inconclusive results. We re-examine this debate and argue that the causal mechanisms affecting politician’s decisions to reform the ...
Leemann, Lucas, Mares, Isabela
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Multi-attribute proportional representation [PDF]
Artificial Intelligence, 2016 We consider the following problem in which a given number of items has to be chosen from a predefined set. Each item is described by a vector of attributes and for each attribute there is a desired distribution that the selected set should fit.
Lang, Jérôme, Skowron, Piotr
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