The size of national assemblies
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2023, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsOn the optimal size of legislatures: An illustrated literature review
2023, European Journal of Political EconomyCitation Excerpt :Stigler (1976) also hypothesizes that large societies delegate a higher share of the functions of states to local governments. As far as we are aware, Taagepera (1972) is the first empirical study that investigates the explanations behind legislature sizes. The analysis suggests that assembly sizes depend strongly and positively on the size of the population.
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary
2022, Social Science ResearchCitation Excerpt :Two threads seem especially valuable. The first pertains to the idea that the size of national assemblies follows a quantitative law – the cube law (Taagepera 1972) — and its generalization (Taagepera 1973), which also fills in the early history of the cube law, tracing it to work by James Parker Smith in 1910, Coleman (1964), and Kendall and Stuart (1970), among others. The cube law is squarely in the spirit of Kepler.
Linguistic and semantic factors in government e-petitions: A comparison between the United Kingdom and the United States of America
2020, Government Information QuarterlyCitation Excerpt :Many governments around the world now run their own e-petition platforms that allow citizens to highlight their concerns to legislators (Directorate-General for Internal Policies, 2015). This modern re-imagining of the petitioning process has the potential to illustrate the impact that information technology can have on the relationship between government and the electorate; with the potential for significant public influence on democratic practices, opening up another route of communication to the legislator that by-passes the “highest-level interest aggregator”, e.g. the congressional representative or member of parliament (Taagepera, 1972). Whilst the use of e-participation platforms have the potential to contribute to policy formulation and evaluation (Gil-Garcia, Pardo, & Luna-Reyes, 2018), the effectiveness of e-petitions in changing government policy is debatable (Bochel, 2012).
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