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. 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

El lun., 9 de may. de 2022 1:36 a. m., Kristofer Munsterhjelm < km_elmet@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 >