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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215904
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800822
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The third vote application
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022
This is the last of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections. It is shown that the policy representation by the Bundestag could be improved using the alternative Third Vote election method. Under the Third...
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The best at the top? : candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation
Crutzen, Benoît; Konishi, Hideo; Sahuguet, Nicolas - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547281
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Moral hazard in electoral teams
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M.; … - 2020
How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections? If each candidate’s primary goal is winning a seat, then those in safe and hopeless list positions have weak incentives to campaign. We present a model in which (i) candidates care about both legislative seats and the...
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The idea of jurisdictional representation in a federation : a proposal and illustrations from recent Canadian and US elections
Ahsan, Syed M. - 2020
The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...
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Preferential votes and minority representation
Negri, Margherita - 2017
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