Egalitarian vs. proportional voting in various contexts: an experimental study

The paper reports the results of series of experiments aimed at examining people’s readiness to use proportional voting as opposed to traditional, egalitarian ”one person-one vote“ principle. With proportional voting we understand voting procedures where the number of votes per person are determined...

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Main Author: Dimdins, Girts (Author)
Contributors: Montgomery, Henry ; Norell, Erik
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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