Probability and electoral bias

Maley, Michael

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Probability and electoral bias

Date

1982

Authors

Maley, Michael

Abstract

One of the most widely discussed concepts in the study of voting and elections has been electoral bias. This thesis has two purposes. The first is to develop a number of measures of bias so as to avoid the defects inherent in those measures which have hitherto been in popular use. The second is to analyse the measures so developed from a critical viewpoint.