[EM] Definite Approval/Disapproval

[Forest Simmons]

El lun., 9 de may. de 2022 1:36 a. m., Kristofer Munsterhjelm <
km_elmet at t-online.de> escribió:

> On 09.05.2022 07:31, Forest Simmons wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.


I wonder if the larger entities have complained about that adjustment the
way larger states here have resented the mistakenly assumed excess power of
the smaller states.

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
>
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