Which Electoral Formula Is the Most Proportional? A New Look with New Evidence

By Kenneth Benoit. Political Analysis, 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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• District magnitude, electoral formula, and the number of parties (2001, background): “In comparative terms, the Hungarian Sainte-Laguë formula has been shown to be ranked in the upper middle of PR formulas in terms of disproportionality (Benoit 2000).”
• Seat biases of apportionment methods for proportional representation (2003, background): “There are many alternative measures, some of them aggregations over all parties, see, for example, Gallagher (1991), Oyama and Ichimori (1995), Pennisi (1998), Benoit (2000).”