Democratic Representation and Partisan Bias in Congressional Elections
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Democratic Representation and Partisan Bias in Congressional Elections
T h e translation of citizen votes into legislative seats is of central importance in democratic electoral systems. It has been a longstanding concern among scholars in political science and in numerous other disciplines. Throughout this literature, two fundamental tenets of democratic theory, partisan bias and democratic representation, have often been confused. W e develop a general statistic...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Political Science Review
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0003-0554,1537-5943
DOI: 10.2307/1962588