Measurement of disproportionality in proportional representation systems

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 48, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1421-1438

  Karpov, Alexander ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Disproportionality indices; PR systems

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; DISPROPORTIONALITY INDICES; PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS; PR SYSTEMS;

EID: 52949129444     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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