Proportional Representation Apportionment Methods and Their Applications /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Pukelsheim, Friedrich (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: 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.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.