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Electoral Systems And Its Constitutional Principles, Carlos Luiz Strapazzon

Carlos Luiz Strapazzon

Those who must have the right to vote must have the right to a fair representation as well? This article discusses widely acknowledged principles concerned on how the electoral districts, the parties and even the ballots should be shaped. It also offers a theorectical approach to the problem concerning the formula for converting votes into seats in representative bodies. These are pivotal questions which have stimulated new studies throughout the democratic world. All of them require convincing answers because the legitimacy of democratic institutions depends, in a large extent, from the correctness of the answers to this set of themes. …