Distortions of proportionality in the electoral systems of the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Germany
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of consequences of application of the mixed member representation and parallel voting. During the study of the practice of parliamentary elections in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Russian Federation, as well as the study of the positions of the constitutional review bodies, revealed the distortion of proportionality arising from the distribution of mandates. The attitude to these distortions in each of the systems allows us to refer the German model to the systems of proportional representation, and the Russian version of the mixed system to the majority systems.
Received: 07/01/2019
Accepted: 08/01/2019
Accepted date: 08/30/2019
Keywords: mixed-member representation; proportional representation; distortion of proportionality
Available in the on-line version with: 30.08.2019
