Maloney, John; Pearson, Bernard; Pickering, Andrew - Business School, University of Exeter - 2001
In 1909 Parker Smith showed that the ratio of seats won by the two major parties in Britain was close to the cube of the ratio of their votes. Taagepera and Shugart argue, wrongly, that a fractal electoral map implies this. In fact their premises imply that the seats’ ratio will be the...