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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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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Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis
American Political Science Review, 2022 The right to vote is a keystone of democracy, but many groups, including those that were long excluded from the ballot, fail to exercise their rights in large numbers.
D. Teele
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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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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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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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Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation Systems
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2020 Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation ...
Jon H. Fiva, A. Halse, Daniel M. Smith
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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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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.
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