La quête du Graal des libéraux-démocrates britanniques : la réforme du mode de scrutin by Cynthia Boyer

“…The lack of proportional representation inherent in the British electoral system has generated much controversy. …”
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Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method by Hill, Tony L.

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Some General Considerations Regarding the Implications of the Changing of Electoral System upon the Structure of Political Élites in Romania by Marcela Monica Stoica

“…In the first research, the political élites analyzed belonged to a parliament elected by a proportional representation system (PR) on closed lists, and in the second, the elections took place by „uninominal” system. …”
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Macro-Regional Patterns of CSO Affiliation/Participation within the UN-Civil-Society Framework: The Underrepresentation of the Developing World by BD Mowell

“…The findings challenge perceptions that the UN relationship with civil society reflects regional pluralism as reflected via proportional representation. …”
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A mathematical analysis of an election system proposed by Gottlob Frege by Harrenstein, P, Lackner, M-L, Lackner, M

“…We prove that this sensitivity to past elections guarantees a proportional representation of political opinions in the long run. …”

Does electoral reform change MPs’ behavior? Evidence from Romania by Chiru, M

“…The article illustrates that legislators’ constituency orientation can be enhanced through electoral system personalization, even in political systems that have used the party-centered closed list proportional representation for several elections. Leveraging a quasi-natural experiment, created by the 2008 electoral reform in Romania, the study investigates the frequency and determinants of parliamentary questions dealing with constituency issues and whether the reform has stimulated different forms of responsiveness toward constituents. …”

The 2013 elections in Nepal by Gellner, D

“…The electoral system was the same as the system used in 2008, with a combination of First Past the Post and Proportional Representation. The results were a defeat for the Maoists, who went from being the biggest single party to the third biggest party. …”

The condorcet principle for multiwinner elections: from shortlisting to proportionality by Aziz, H, Elkind, E, Faliszewski, P, Lackner, M, Skowron, P

“…We argue that Gehrlein-stable committees are appropriate for shortlisting tasks, and that locally stable committees are better suited for applications that require proportional representation. The goal of this paper is to analyze these notions in detail, explore their compatibility with notions of proportionality, and investigate the computational complexity of related algorithmic tasks.…”

Maybe It’s Time to change the Order of the Seimas Elections? by Rolandas Tučas, Giedrius Kanapka

“…The problems of the Lithuanian electoral system discussed in the article are recommended to be solved in the future by using only proportional representation for the election of the Seimas, dividing the state into 6 multi-member constituencies (the 7th constituency is for citizens of our country living abroad), which would be formed on the basis of counties, merging smaller counties together. …”
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The Challenge of Governance and Public Representation in Pakistan: How Electoral System Matters? by Khalid Rahman

“…There are mainly two electoral systems in vogue in the world – the traditional ‘first-past-the-post’, and the ‘proportional representation’. This paper argues that the former only promotes individual and parochial interests, while disenfranchising majority votes. …”
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Peran Sukuk Negara dalam Pembiayaan Infrastruktur by Rizky Suci Ramadayanti, Dedy Mainata, Angrum Pratiwi

“…Sukuk is a proportional representation of ownership of an asset for a certain period of time with risksand returns associated with cash flow through underlying asset in the hand of investors. …”
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Democratic electoral systems and the environment of the developing world by Gan, Damian Zheing Weii

“…The findings suggest that majoritarian systems have more dynamic economic performances compared to proportional representation (PR) systems. Furthermore, majoritarian systems emitted significantly more carbon dioxide and produced worse Environmental Performance Index scores. …”
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Disengaging Voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting? by Hobolt, S, Fisher, S, Lessard-Phillips, L, Curtice, J

“…A number of studies have found that turnout tends to be lower under plurality rule than when some system of proportional representation is in place. Meanwhile, there is reason to believe that when turnout is lower, it is voters who are less knowledgeable about politics who are particularly less likely to participate. …”

Disengaging voters: do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting? by Fisher, S, Lessard-Phillips, L, Hobolt, S, Curtice, J

“…A number of studies have found that turnout tends to be lower under plurality rule than when some system of proportional representation is in place. Meanwhile, there is reason to believe that when turnout is lower, it is voters who are less knowledgeable about politics who are particularly less likely to participate. …”

Quality assessment of public services in Latvia by Iveta Katelo, Irena Kokina, Vitālijs Raščevskis

“…The sample of customers is occasional and administratively territorial, observing the proportional representation of planning regions. The service quality assessment model – the SERVQUAL instrument (Parasuraman et al., 1988), was used for the data collection. …”
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Electoral Politics, Party Performance, and Governance in Greenland: Parties, Personalities, and Cleavages in an Autonomous Subnational Island Jurisdiction by Yi Zhang, Xinyuan Wei, Adam Grydehøj

“…Even though Greenland possesses a strongly multiparty system, supported by elections involving party-list proportional representation within a single multimember constituency, a single political party, Siumut, has led the government for all but a brief period since the advent of Greenlandic autonomy in 1979. …”
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On the robustness of democratic electoral processes to computational propaganda by Glory M. Givi, Robin Delabays, Matthieu Jacquemet, Philippe Jacquod

“…We find that such populations are more resilient against opinion manipulations (i) if they are less polarized and (ii) when voters interact more with each other, regardless of their opinion differences, and that (iii) electoral systems based on proportional representation are generally the most robust. Our model qualitatively captures the volatility of the US House of Representatives elections. …”
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Más allá del género. ¿Por qué las diputadas mexicanas representan sustantivamente a las mujeres? by Sergio Arturo Bárcena Juárez

“…Conclusions: Proportional representation, the adscription to leftist or minority parties, and legislative, partisan, and civic experiences can increase the propensity of female legislators to press for policy changes in support for women’s demands. …”
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Analyzing and supporting mental representations and strategies in solving Bayesian problems by Julia Sirock, Markus Vogel, Tina Seufert

“…Due to the analog character and the proportional representation of the numerical information by the unit square, it is assumed that the passive cognitive load is lower when using the unit square as visualization than when using the 2 × 2 table. …”
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Perubahan Politik Terhadap Konflik Etnis di Thailand Selatan : Studi Kasus Era Pemerintahan Thaksin Shinnawat by MADBILHED, Abdulloh

“…It might be because the Thai Muslims-Malay in the southern bordering provinces of Thailand are still lack of political ethnic representatives in the parliamentary system for their interest groups through a proportional representation. Thus, itâ��s duty of government to upgrade their positive system such as the economic growth, the liberalism, and the atmosphere of cultural exchanges.…”