A New Quota Approach to Electoral Disproportionality Martínez-Panero, Miguel Arredondo, Verónica Peña, Teresa Ramírez González, Victoriano Electoral systems Proportionality Electoral quota Disproportionality indexes Measurement Spain Sweden Germany The authors acknowledge and appreciate the comments of two anonymous referees. In this paper electoral disproportionality is split into two types: (1) Forced or unavoidable, due to the very nature of the apportionment problem; and (2) non-forced. While disproportionality indexes proposed in the literature do not distinguish between such components, we design an index, called “quota index”, just measuring avoidable disproportionality. Unlike the previous indexes, the new one can be zero in real situations. Furthermore, this index presents an interesting interpretation concerning transfers of seats. Properties of the quota index and relationships with some usual disproportionality indexes are analyzed. Finally, an empirical approach is undertaken for different countries and elections. 2020-05-22T07:23:22Z 2020-05-22T07:23:22Z 2019-03-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Martínez-Panero, M.; Arredondo, V.; Peña, T.; Ramírez, V. A New Quota Approach to Electoral Disproportionality. Economies 2019, 7, 17. [doi:10.3390/economies7010017] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62183 10.3390/economies7010017 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI