Beisbart, Claus; Bovens, Luc - In: Public Choice 154 (2013) 1, pp. 75-94
The mean majority deficit in a two-tier voting system is a function of the partition of the population. We derive a new square-root rule: For odd-numbered population sizes and equipopulous units the mean majority deficit is maximal when the member size of the units in the partition is close to...