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100	1		_aPOWELL JR., G. Bingham _98580
245	1	0	_aElections laws, disproportionality and median correspondence : _bimplications for two visions of democracy
260			_cjul.2000
520	3		_aComparative studies of election rules and legislative representation have focused intensibely on vote-seat disproportionality as an indication of poor representation. Beginning with citizens' preferences, rather than votes, has important advantages and is especially more appropriate for a majoritarian vision of democracy. We analyse the effect of election rules on both vote-seat correspondence and median left-right correspondence in seventy elections in seventeen countries. We show theoretically the stringent conditions necessary to reduce vote-seat disproportionality in high threshold systems and empirically their high variance (and righer levels) of distortion. Although good median correspondence could be created, in theory, under a wide range of electoral systems, our empirical results suggest that proportional representation (PR) systems tend to outperform single-member district (SMD) systems by this criterion also
700	1		_aVANBERG, Georg S _919682
773	0	8	_tBritish Journal of Political Science _g30, part 3, p. 383-411 _d, jul.2000 _w
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998			_a20030203 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060726 _b0949^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c10814 _d10814
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