Proportional Representation Apportionment Methods and Their Applications /

The book offers a rigorous description of the procedures that proportional representation systems use to translate vote counts into seat numbers. Since the methodological analysis is guided by practical needs, plenty of empirical instances are provided and reviewed to motivate the development, and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pukelsheim, Friedrich (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Game theory.
Social sciences-Statistical methods.
Political science.
Game Theory.
Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.
Political Science.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exposing Methods: The 2009 European Parliament Elections.- Imposing Constitutionality: The 2009 Bundestag Election
  • From Reals to Integers: Rounding Functions, Rounding Rules.- Divisor Methods of Apportionment: Divide and Round
  • Quota Methods of Apportionment: Divide and Rank
  • Targeting the House Size: Discrepancy Distribution
  • Favoring Some at the Expense of Others: Seat Biases
  • Preferring Stronger Parties to Weaker Parties: Majorization
  • Securing System Consistency: Coherence and Paradoxes
  • Appraising Electoral Equality: Goodness-of-Fit Criteria
  • Tracing Peculiarities: Vote Thresholds and Majority Clauses.- Truncating Seat Ranges: Minimum-Maximum Restrictions.- Proportionality and Personalization: BWG 2013
  • Representing Districts and Parties: Double Proportionality.

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