Selecting indexes of electoral proportionality: General properties and relationships

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-74

  Borisyuk, Galina ^a   Rallings, Colin ^a   Thrasher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electoral disproportionality; Electoral outcome; Proportionality indices; Seats; Statistical measures; Votes; Wasted votes

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843075438     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:QUQU.0000013239.55304.98     Document Type: Article

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