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Social choice theory
the rule that in a two-tier voting body each unit's voting weight should scale with the square root of its population for equal individual voting power.In social choice theory, Penrose square root law refers to the rule that in a two-tier voting body each unit's voting weight should scale with the square root of its population for equal individual voting power. This meaning comes from Penrose (1946) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.[1]