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- noun politics Any
system where one group has significantly moreinfluence than another, such as when votingdistricts are unevenly spread out across apopulation (comparegerrymandering ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The US Senate famously overrepresents certain rural areas* but some level of this form of malapportionment is a common feature of electoral systems.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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We find that malapportionment is negatively related to both gasoline taxes and support for the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (where “support” is measured as the duration of the spell between the signing of the Protocol and ratification by the domestic legislature).
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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You gave numbers on malapportionment, which is yet entirely another issue.
Lean Left » Blog Archive » More on “Meaningless” Midterms 2006
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When WA was finally implementing a one vote-one value electoral system, the Greens supported it for the Lower House, but - for reasons which I have never understood - insisted on keeping the regional weighting (more commonly known as a malapportionment) in the Upper House.
Bartlett's Blog 2008
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Senate, which has some severe malapportionment problems:
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And no more discrimination against minorities, malapportionment of electoral districts, white-only primaries, etc.
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The institution has always been pernicious, just as the malapportionment of the Senate has always been the result of a hardball political negotiation rather than expressing some underlying good idea about the design of political institutions.
Matthew Yglesias » The Filibuster Was Never a Good Idea 2010
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We argue that malapportionment of the electoral system affects both the rate at which governments tax gasoline and the extent to which governments participate in global efforts to ameliorate climate change.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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Senate, which has some severe malapportionment problems: Currently, Senators from the 21 least populated states, representing 37 million of 307 million Americans (12%), can filibuster and stop anything.
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And no more discrimination against minorities, malapportionment of electoral districts, white-only primaries, etc.
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