The way the chamber of deputies is formed - by an open-list proportional representation system - makes it easier for celebrity candidates to win office.
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It aims to attract people "disaffected by the decision of the long-standing supporters of proportional representation - like the Liberal Democrats... to back the Yes to AV campaign".
We're guessing it's a pixel-for-pixel representation of what would appear on the D3200's own VGA-level display, and there's no scaling whatsoever.
Looking at companies with women on their boards in 2011, the research group Catalyst found a 26% difference in return on invested capital (ROIC) between the top-quartile companies (with 19-44% women board representation) and bottom-quartile companies (with no female directors).
All of the component pictures are then stitched together to form one fully illuminated high-resolution representation of the object -- allowing scientists to observe details that might otherwise be missed.
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Mr Kennedy says he expects Labour to honour its pledge but he strenuously denies any suggestion of a pre-election pact between himself and the prime minister to introduce the lesser form of proportional representation - the Alternative Vote system.
Papua New Guinea and Fiji also use AV - but most democracies use versions of proportional representation or first-past-the-post.
Fighting their first election, the Liberal Democrats did much to give themselves a politically vital unique selling point apart from the issue of proportional representation - a marginal concern to most voters.
There is some history of SNP representation - its predecessor seat East Dunbartonshire was held by Margaret Bain (now Margaret Ewing) from October 1974 to 1979, but the SNP was in third place behind the Conservatives in 1997.
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The next steps in the OpenTCA initiative include branching out from the initial group of broker sponsors to include buy-side and additional sell-side representation in order to establish a process for adoption of best practices.
Thirty-two parties were competing under a system of proportional representation for the 120-member Knesset.
The remaining 440 places are parcelled out among political parties, civil-rights groups, tribes and (of course) the entire 100-member preparatory committee, ensuring broad-based representation.
Instead of the restricted G-14, club representation has been taken over by a wide-ranging independent European Club Association, which will have more than 100 members.
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Most Americans will never receive the sort of legal representation or string-pulling that DSK will inevitably receive.
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So far there is no sign of a bill of rights or proportional representation for pan-British elections.
By so doing, the Senate will be ensuring that America continues to enjoy the representation it needs - and deserves - at the United Nations.
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The group, established by Buyosphere CEO Tara Hunt, is a virtual braintrust of female tech industry leaders, featuring a healthy representation of start-up founders and tech entrepreneurs.
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Messrs Zeman and Klaus, whose parties together won 60% of the vote and 137 of parliament's 200 seats, want to amend the constitution so as to change the voting system from proportional representation to first-past-the-post.
As Mr Clegg took questions in the Commons on 10 July 2012, he argued that a referendum on the government's plans to make the upper house a mostly elected chamber, selected by proportional representation on 15-year, non-renewable terms, would be unnecessary and expensive.
While the mammoth convention includes a healthy representation of PC-related keynote speakers, such as Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina, and Craig Barrett, it remains to be seen whether the show will truly come into its own as the focal point for the consumer PC industry.
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In the cut-throat world of talent representation, the common space might alienate high-wattage clients, who closely guard their privacy.
This year, however, saw a relative deluge in 3D-printing representation, with strong showings from 3D Systems, FormLabs, MakerBot and the cloud-based 3D printer, Sculpteo.
It was in 2004 that Colorado Democrats recognized that they could take a major step towards locking in the state for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry if they could succeed in scraping their own winner-take-all system and bring proportional representation to the electoral vote in Colorado.
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Current research corroborates: in 2011, Catalyst found a 26% difference in return on invested capital between top-quartile companies with 19-44% female board representation and bottom quartile companies with zero women directors.
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The Scottish coalition's harmony threatened to break down on June 27th when an independent commission set up by the administration to look at local-council reform recommended reducing the number of councillors and electing them by proportional representation, instead of by first-past-the-post.
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There have been one or two high-profile disputes in recent years: a long-running one concerned representation on North Sea oil rigs.
The voting system is highly complex, with two-thirds of the 498 elected seats being decided by proportional representation and the rest by a first-past-the-post system.
Both New York-based Seamless and Chicago-based GrubHub will have significant representation on the new company's board.
Euronext was told it would have to substantially slash its stake in Clearnet - from 41.4% to below 15% - and limit its representation on Clearnet's board to just one seat.
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At present, it has no formal representation beyond some information-gathering by a Scots-based Bank agent.
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