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Full Proportional Justified Representation
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsIn multiwinner approval voting, selecting a proportionally representative committee based on the voters' approval ballots is an essential task. The notion of justified representation (JR) demands that any large "cohesive" group of voters should be ...
Y. Kalayci, Jiasen Liu, David Kempe
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Representation, 2019
This article sets out the case for undertaking democratic reforms that reconnect parties with society, and addresses the well-known objection that democratising parties holds the risk of making them less electable, since it means empowering people who ...
Fabio Wolkenstein
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This article sets out the case for undertaking democratic reforms that reconnect parties with society, and addresses the well-known objection that democratising parties holds the risk of making them less electable, since it means empowering people who ...
Fabio Wolkenstein
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Democratic Equality, 2019
This chapter studies the claim—common among political theorists who consider the matter—that political equality requires proportional legislative representation.
J. Wilson
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This chapter studies the claim—common among political theorists who consider the matter—that political equality requires proportional legislative representation.
J. Wilson
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Boosting Sortition via Proportional Representation
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSortition is based on the idea of choosing randomly selected representatives for decision making. The main properties that make sortition particularly appealing are fairness --- where every citizen has an equal chance of being selected--- and ...
Soroush Ebadian, Evi Micha
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On proportional non-representation
Public Choice, 1994This paper contends the main virtue conventionally attributed to proportional electoral rules (i.e., effective representation of political views). It discusses a number of shortcomings that lead too much proportionality to a self-defeat: it reduces vote mobility through the strong cultivation of voters' loyalties; it smooths out vote variations when ...
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Party-Determined Viability and Gender Bias in Open-List Proportional Representation Systems
Politics & Gender, 2019Using individual-level data from three Lithuanian legislative elections (2008, 2012, 2016), this article investigates voter bias in an open-list proportional representation system in which parties rank candidates but voters are able to fully influence ...
Rimvydas Ragauskas
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How proportional is proportional representation?
The Mathematical Intelligencer, 1986In a very popular way the author discusses the problem of division of seats in some assembly between parties provided the number of votes received by these parties at the elections is known. The author shows why the proportional distribution is not adequate and discusses different quota methods, e.g. D'Hondt's rule, Droop quota etc.
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Political research quarterly, 2018
Throughout the world, the number of women elected to legislatures has risen dramatically. Most of the quantitative research explaining party, district, or national differences has focused on the aggregate rather than the candidate level thereby ...
Tània Verge, Nina Wiesehomeier
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Throughout the world, the number of women elected to legislatures has risen dramatically. Most of the quantitative research explaining party, district, or national differences has focused on the aggregate rather than the candidate level thereby ...
Tània Verge, Nina Wiesehomeier
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Proportional Representation in Vote Streams
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2017We consider elections where the voters come one at a time, in a streaming fashion, and devise space-efficient algorithms which identify an approximate winning committee with respect to common multiwinner proportional representation voting rules ...
P. Dey, Nimrod Talmon, Otniel van Handel
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