A complete information index for measuring the proportionality of electoral systems

Ram Mudambi

Applied Economics Letters, 1997, vol. 4, issue 2, 101-104

Abstract: A crucial property of an electoral system is the manner in which it translates a vote distribution into a pattern of representation. Measures of this property are important in assessing the relative merits of differing electoral systems. Galeotti proposes one useful index (Galeotti, G., 1994, On proportional non-representation, Public Choice, 80, 359-70). However, it is argued that this index is informationally incomplete. A complete information index is proposed and shown to perform better in an illustration using data from Sicilian provincial elections.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1080/758526704

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