English Dictionary

cube rule

名詞

不可算名詞

An observation that, in a parliamentary election, the ration of seats won by each party is proportional to the cube of the percentage of the vote obtained by each party

日本語の意味

議会選挙において、各政党が獲得する議席数の比率が、各政党が得た投票率の立方に比例するという現象

Political scientists often cite the cube rule when explaining why small shifts in vote share can produce large changes in parliamentary seat allocations.

政治学者は、議席数が各党の得票率の三乗に比例するという観察を引用して、得票率のわずかな変化が議席配分に大きな変化をもたらす理由を説明することが多い。

意味（1）

An observation that, in a parliamentary election, the ration of seats won by each party is proportional to the cube of the percentage of the vote obtained by each party