Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. politics Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).
Etymologies
- mal (bad, wrong) + apportionment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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
“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
“You gave numbers on malapportionment, which is yet entirely another issue.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And no more discrimination against minorities, malapportionment of electoral districts, white-only primaries, etc.”
“Senate, which has some severe malapportionment problems:”
“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
“The malapportionment of the Senate, for instance, worsened dramatically over time as newer states with small populations were admitted to the union.”
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
malversation, embezzlement, peculation, racketeering, jobbery, misappropriation, defalcation, venality, favouritism, favoritism, nepotism, gerrymandering and 44 more...
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Politik
malapportionment, sans-culotte, baronetcy, emeritus, witenagemot
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