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New Introduction: Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections Revisited by Ron Johnston III Preface 1 Translating votes into seats 2 A modelling framework for the seats-votes relationship 3 Explaining the cube law 4 Malapportionment, nonuniform swing, and nonnormality 5 Three-party elections
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