<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El lun., 9 de may. de 2022 1:36 a. m., Kristofer Munsterhjelm <<a href="mailto:km_elmet@t-online.de">km_elmet@t-online.de</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 09.05.2022 07:31, Forest Simmons wrote:<br>
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> On top of that, the differences in those apportionment rules are not<br>
> nearly as consequential as the gerrymandering, the electoral college,<br>
> and even the Banzhaf power indices of the states, districts, and voters.<br>
> For example, even though small states have excess representation in<br>
> congress and the electoral college due to the two senators rule, they<br>
> tend to suffer lower power in terms of the probability of individual<br>
> votes being pivotal. <br>
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> I wonder if the Banzhaf power index is taken seriously in European<br>
> parliaments.<br>
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The Council of the European Union is weighted in a way that sorta looks<br>
like the square-root allocation you'd get if you were going by power<br>
indices. </blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">But not entirely.<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_method#The_EU_proposal" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_method#The_EU_proposal</a><br>
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Every country I know of (that is proportional at all) uses ordinary<br>
(arithmetic) proportionality for its national assemblies.<br>
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-km<br>
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