"Mal-apportionment" en los Parlamentos Autonómicos del Estado Español.
ISSN: 2171-892X
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 21
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de ASEPUMA
Abstract
The presence of a divergence between the real distribution of seats by electoral districts and the theoretical distribution in function of the population, it is known in the literature as Malapportionment. Its presence is a constant in the majority of the systems of democratic representation where the distribution of seats of a parliament bases in the distribution in function of the designated electoral districts. In this work we have analysed the different degrees of presence of Mal-apportionment in the different autonomic parliaments of the Kingdom of Spain and which would have to be the optimum distribution that minimised it.
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