Browsing Discussion papers (FOR) by Subject "legitimacy"
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Mixed Member Proportional; equal influence and assembly size
(Discussion paper;10/20, Working paper, 2020-08-31)With the present (2020) tally rules, the number of seats in the Bundestag is highly volatile. In 2017 it got 709 seats, 111 of them extra-ordinary. The tally rules may double the influence of a voter who splits the vote; ... -
MMP-elections and the assembly size
(Discussion paper;15/19, Working paper, 2019-10-30)MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) elections for legislatures have ballots with one vote in a local single seat tally and one vote for a party list in a multi-seat tally. In Germany, the multi-seat tally occasionally violated ...