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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">123</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Criteria of quality assessment of representativeness of the electoral systems</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Criteria of quality assessment of representativeness of the electoral systems</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Morozova</surname><given-names>Oksana S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Morozova</surname><given-names>Oksana S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>mos2309@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff166" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff166"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Ryazan State University named for S.A. Yesenin</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ryazan State University named for S.A. Yesenin</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>67</fpage><lpage>73</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/2/article/123">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/2/article/123</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(35)/67-73.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(35)/67-73.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The article analyzes the use of the proportionality test as indicators of optimal choice of the electoral system. The possibilities of election engineering to influence the outcome of elections to legislative bodies by changing the methods of translation of votes into seats.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article analyzes the use of the proportionality test as indicators of optimal choice of the electoral system. The possibilities of election engineering to influence the outcome of elections to legislative bodies by changing the methods of translation of votes into seats.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>criteria of proportionality</kwd><kwd>electoral engineering</kwd><kwd>electoral systems</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>criteria of proportionality</kwd><kwd>electoral engineering</kwd><kwd>electoral systems</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>