> Bob Richard [electorama] > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 4:29 PM > In "Seats and Votes" (1989), Chapter 15, Taagepera & Shugart > document the empirical generalization that the size of the > lower house tends to vary with the cube root of the > population.
Well Israel doesn't fit that model. In 1949 the population was 1,059,000. In 2005 the population was 6,930,000. Throughout that period the Knesset has had 120 members. I suspect the "empirical generalisation" may have been valid as a snapshot of the status quo when the research was done, but it tells us nothing useful about the dynamics of representation with population change. James Gilmour ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
