Malapportionment Legislative in Latin America

Abstract

Various comparative studies that analyze legislative malapportionment and are usually very simplistic and not very objective; because they limit themselves to comparing the number of legislators between different countries, without taking into account the different cultural, economic, social, political and democratic contexts in which each country is situated. In this document, we carry out a less simplistic analysis of legislative overrepresentation, where we consider factors such as population, type of government, geographic location, and even analyze economic situations in different countries. All this in search of an approximation to the criterion that it establishes, where there is malapportionment and where there is not.