TY  - RPRT
CY  - Toulouse
ID  - publications34703
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/124204
A1  - de Mouzon, Olivier
A1  - Laurent, Thibault
A1  - Le Breton, Michel
Y1  - 2020/04//
N2  - 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. It is applied to the 2010 Electoral College and the French parliamentary and local elections with a special attention to the electoral reform of 2015. In these applications, the Lorenz curve ordering is almost conclusive and consequently the Gini and DK indices
are aligned and complement the almost complete ranking derived from Lorenz.
PB  - TSE Working Paper
T3  - TSE Working Paper
KW  - Apportionment
KW  - Disproportionality
KW  - Electoral Justice
KW  - Lorenz Curve
M1  - working_paper
TI  - One Man, One Vote Part 2: Measurement of Malapportionment and Disproportionality and the Lorenz Curve
AV  - public
EP  - 50
ER  -