Empirically, cabinet portfolios are distributed among government parties in rough proportion to the number of seats that each party contributes to the government’s legislative majority EXCEPT:
A. Smaller parties are underrepresented and larger parties are overrepresented.
B. Smaller parties are overrepresented and larger parties are underrepresented.
C. Medium parties are overrepresented at the expense of larger parties.
D. Medium parties are underrepresented at the expense of smaller parties.
B. Smaller parties are overrepresented and larger parties are underrepresented.
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