AUTHOR=Margaritondo Giorgio TITLE=Size of National Assemblies: The Classic Derivation of the Cube-Root Law is Conceptually Flawed JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=8 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.614596 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2020.614596 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

For half a century, the analysis of the size of national assemblies was dominated by the famous cube-root relation with the population. However, a revisitation of that historical work with a physicist’s approach reveals basic conceptual problems that fatally undermine its conclusions. Furthermore, the assembly size evaluation exceeds the accuracy of all power equations, which cannot be reliably used for political analysis.