[EM] Definite Approval/Disapproval

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 09.05.2022 07:31, Forest Simmons wrote:
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> 
> On top of that, the differences in those apportionment rules are not
> nearly as consequential as the gerrymandering, the electoral college,
> and even the Banzhaf power indices of the states, districts, and voters.
> For example, even though small states have excess representation in
> congress and the electoral college due to the two senators rule, they
> tend to suffer lower power in terms of the probability of individual
> votes being pivotal. 
> 
> I wonder if the Banzhaf power index is taken seriously in European
> parliaments.

The Council of the European Union is weighted in a way that sorta looks
like the square-root allocation you'd get if you were going by power
indices. But not entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_method#The_EU_proposal

Every country I know of (that is proportional at all) uses ordinary
(arithmetic) proportionality for its national assemblies.

-km