Proportional Representation Apportionment Methods and Their Applications /

• Main Author: Pukelsheim, Friedrich (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Political science.; Game theory.; Statistics.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Political Science.
• Physical Description: XXI, 234 p. 3 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319038568

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 to illustrate the results. Concrete examples, like the 2009 elections to the European Parliament in each of the 27 Member States and the 2013 election to the German Bundestag, are analyzed in full detail. The level of mathematical exposition, as well as the relation to political sciences and constitutional jurisprudence makes this book suitable for special graduate courses and seminars.