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Territorial self-governance and proportional representation: reducing the risk of territory-centred intrastate violence

open access: yesTerritory, Politics, Governance, 2020
After decades of scholarship, there is still little agreement about the usefulness of territorial self-governance in managing territory-centred conflicts.
Natascha S. Neudorfer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does a Least-Preferred Candidate Win a Seat? A Comparison of Three Electoral Systems

open access: yesEconomies, 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
doaj   +1 more source

A model of a team contest, with an application to incentives under list proportional representation

open access: yes, 2020
We develop a model of a team contest for multiple, indivisible prizes. Team members exert costly effort to improve their team's success. We analyze two intrateam allocation rules. Under a list rule, prizes are allocated according to a predetermined list.
Benoît S. Y. Crutzen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Justice and equality for all? Proportional representation in Belgium and France (1883-1921)

open access: yesSequência: 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
doaj   +1 more source

Zastoupení členských zemí v Evropském parlamentu po volbách 2019 [The EU Member States’ Representation in the European Parliament after the 2019 Elections] [PDF]

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

Extreme Voting under Proportional Representation: The Multidimensional Case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We study the strategic behavior of voters in a model of proportional representation, in which thepolicy space is multidimensional. Our main finding is that in large electorate, under some assumptionson voters'preferences, voters essentially vote, in any ...
De Sinopoli, Francesco   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Administrasi Publik, Pembangunan dan Kemajemukan Etnis

open access: yesJKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2015
The appalling aftermath of massive riots in Indonesia during the crisis has, in a way, reflected the inability of public administration to be an intermediary between the state and the people in a multi-ethnic society.
Sofian Efendi
doaj   +1 more source

Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation

open access: yesJournal of Politics, 2020
Analyzing the voting behavior of Swiss members of parliament (MP) using newly collected individual, district, and cantonal level data, we show that both electoral disproportionalities and the insurgent parties’ electoral potential are important ...
P. Emmenegger, A. Walter
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preparing the Terrain: Conditioning Factors for the Regionalization of the Vote for Federal Deputy in São Paulo

open access: yesBrazilian Political Science Review, 2018
This article proposes a new interpretation of the regional distribution of votes in the dispute for legislative offices in Brazil. The literature has traditionally understood regionalization to be evidence that politicians deliberately create zones of ...
Glauco Peres da Silva, Graziele Silotto
doaj   +1 more source

The Adoption of Proportional Representation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The debate between economic and political explanations of the adoption of proportional representation has yielded mixed results. We re-examine this debate and argue that one has to take the different levels on which the causal mechanisms are located into
Leemann, L, Mares, I
core   +4 more sources

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