In keeping with the emphasis on the incentives faced by individual legislators, this variable measures the district magnitude considering the viewpoint of the average legislator in the lower house. It is scored as a weighted average of the various district sizes, where weights are computed as the number of legislators running in the district of each magnitude divided by the total number of seats. For example: A country with 300 seats divided among one national district with 200 members and 100 single-member districts has a magnitude for the average legislator of [(200200) + (1001)]/300, which yields a figure of 133.67.
Type of variable: Continuous
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| Dataset | No. Countries |
|---|---|
| Standard time-series: | 124 |