Apportionment amongst Member States and the Value of a Vote in the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Apportionment amongst Member States and the Value of a Vote in the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections

Original language description

This quantitative analysis deals with the issue of the apportionment of seats in the European Parliament amongst the 28 Member States and its goal is to quantify the existing principle for allocating the EP seats, the so-called principle of degressive proportionality provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 14 (2) of the Treaty on European Union. The analysis employs quantitative tools commonly used in electoral analysis for measuring disproportionality of electoral rules (the discrepancy between seats and votes). At the individual (Member State) level, the paper finds both the value of a vote (the average size of population per seat) and how much each of the Member States overrepresented or underrepresented (by the advantage ratio measure). At the aggregate level for the whole European Parliament representation, the value of malapportionment is measured by the distortion index created by Loosemore and Hanby (1971), as it was earlier suggested as a suitable strategy for measur

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Revista de Stiinte Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques

ISSN

1584-224X

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

48

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

179-190

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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