Maximal modularity and the optimal size of parliaments

Abstract An important question in representative democracies is how to determine the optimal parliament size of a given country. According to an old conjecture, known as the cubic root law, there is a fairly universal power-law relation, with an exponent equal to 1/3, between the size of an elected...

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Main Authors: Luca Gamberi, Yanik-Pascal Förster, Evan Tzanis, Alessia Annibale, Pierpaolo Vivo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93639-1