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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Proportional Representation
    sub title: Apportionment Methods and Their Applications
  name:
    name part: Pukelsheim, Friedrich.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 234 p. 3 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: by Friedrich Pukelsheim.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Game theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: HB144
  classification: QA269-272
  classification: 519
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319038568
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03856-8
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    record change date: 20151204191300.0
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