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 yielded mixed results. We reexamine this debate and argue that one has to take the different levels on which the causal mechanisms are located into account.
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.
Jérôme Lang, Piotr Skowron 0001
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Editor’s Introduction: The Promise and Peril of Ranked Choice Voting
Politics and Governance, 2021 Dissatisfaction with two-party politics is at an all-time high in the US. As extreme polarization and minority rule persist, a possibility of an electoral reform becomes increasingly more likely.
Caroline J. Tolbert, Daria Kuznetsova
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Polling in a proportional representation system [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2018 We study the effects of opinion polls on election results in proportional representation systems. Moderate voters have preferences over the vote shares received by the parties so that an agent’s optimal voting decision might depend on the other agents’ behavior.
Christos Mavridis +1 more
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Investigation on parametric representation of proportional and nonproportional multiaxial fatigue responses [PDF]
Fracture and Structural Integrity, 2016 This study aims to investigate fatigue damage resulting from multiaxial fatigue, proportional and/or nonproportional, loading by analyzing stresses and strains over a full domain around a representative stress-strain element.
J. Albinmousa
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Proportional Justified Representation
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017 The goal of multi-winner elections is to choose a fixed-size committee based on voters’ preferences. An important concern in this setting is representation: large groups of voters with cohesive preferences should be adequately represented by the election winners. Recently, Aziz et al.
Luis Sánchez-Fernández +6 more
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Does a Least-Preferred Candidate Win a Seat? A Comparison of Three Electoral Systems
Economies, 2015 In this paper, the differences between two variations of proportional representation (PR), open-list PR and closed-list PR, are analyzed in terms of their ability to accurately reflect voter preference.
Yoichi Hizen
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A Strange Law in Complicated Times: Retracing the Political Context of the Romanian Electoral Reform of March 1926 [PDF]
Annals of the "Ovidius" University of Constanţa. Political Science Series, 2021 : The Romanian Electoral Law of March 1926 embodied a surprising, uncanny, revolutionary, and controversial juridical innovation with a spectacular procedural trajectory.
Adrian-Alexandru HERŢA
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Justice and equality for all? Proportional representation in Belgium and France (1883-1921)
Sequência: Estudos Juridicos e Politicos, 2021 Whereas 19th century Belgium is traditionally framed as heavily dependent on France, this image ought to be nuanced for its political system. During what Pierre Rosanvallon named the transnational ‘proportional moment’ (1899-1914), the introduction of ...
Frederik Dhondt
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Zastoupení členských zemí v Evropském parlamentu po volbách 2019 [The EU Member States’ Representation in the European Parliament after the 2019 Elections] [PDF]
Acta Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, 2020 Modern democratic political systems are hardly conceivable without political representation. This also applies to the European Union, a unique international organisation with a directly elected and fully-fledged assembly representing the EU citizens ...
Jakub Charvát
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