“One Man, One Vote” Part 2: Measurement of Malapportionment and Disproportionality and the Lorenz Curve A: Introduction and Measurement Tools

Olivier de Mouzon (), Thibault Laurent () and Michel Le Breton ()
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Olivier de Mouzon: University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse School of Economics, INRAE
Thibault Laurent: University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse School of Economics, CNRS
Michel Le Breton: University of Toulouse Capitole, Institut Universitaire de France and Toulouse School of Economics

A chapter in Advances in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics, 2021, pp 615-631 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The main objective of this paper is to explore and estimate the departure from the “One Man, One Vote” principle in the context of political representation and its consequences for distributive politics. To proceed to the measurement of the inequalities in the representation of territories (geographical under/over representation) or opinions/parties (ideological under/over representation), we import (with some important qualifications and adjustments) the Lorenz curve which is an important tool in the economics of income distribution. We consider subsequently some malapportionment and disproportionality indices. We provide several applications of these concepts in Chap. 32 .

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73249-3_31

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