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Apportionment in times of digitalization

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2023

solution to the apportionment problem. All of these are illustrated using the example of the 2021 German Bundestag elections. …

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Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation

Biró, Péter; Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2013

definition, is not compatible with monotonicity and Harequota properties, two standard requirements of apportionment rules. We … lexicographically minimized. This apportionment rule is a welldefined allocation mechanism compatible with and derived from the … recommendation of the Venice Commission. Finally, we compare this apportionment rule with mainstream mechanisms using real data from …

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Apportionment and districting by sum of ranking differences

Sziklai, Balázs R.; Héberger, Károly - 2020

possibilities. Apportionment and districting are two critical issues that emerge in relation to democratic elections. Theoreticians … unique best method in either cases. Using data from Norway and the US we rank the standard methods both for the apportionment … and for the districting problem. In case of apportionment, we find that all the classical methods perform reasonably well …

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"One man, one vote" : part 2 : measurement of malapportionment and disproportionality and the Lorenz curve

Mouzon, Olivier de; Laurent, Thibault; Le Breton, Michel - 2020

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Electoral reform and voter coordination

Fiva, Jon H.; Hix, Simon - 2018

Electoral reform creates new strategic coordination incentives for voters, but these effects are difficult to isolate. We identify how the reform of the Norwegian electoral system in 1919, when single-member districts (SMDs) were replaced with multi- member proportional representation (PR),...

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Preferential votes and minority representation

Negri, Margherita - 2017

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Proportional representation, political responsiveness and child mortality

Gathmann, Christina - 2019

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I provide novel evidence that electoral reforms that shifted from a majoritarian to a proportional system of voter representation generated substantive health benefits for the...

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Tackling the Bundestag growth by introducing fraction-valued votes

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019

Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which continues to grow due to the increasing number of overhang mandates. In 2016, Norbert Lammert, then president of the Bundestag, proposed to restrict it to 630 members by allocating mandates according to quotas for...

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The best at the top? : candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation

Crutzen, Benoît; Konishi, Hideo; Sahuguet, Nicolas - 2021

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Tackling the Bundestag growth

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022

This is the third of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections. Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which still grows due to the increasing number of overhang mandates. The...

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