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.

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...