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, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• 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 an in-depth study of the translation of vote counts into seat numbers in proportional representation systems  – an approach guided by practical needs. It also provides plenty of empirical instances illustrating the results. It analyzes in detail the 2014 elections to the European Par...

Table of Contents:

• Exposing Methods: The 2014 European Parliament Elections.- Imposing Constitutionality: The 2009 Bundestag Election
• From Reals to Integers: Rounding Functions and 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
• Double-Proportional Divisor Methods: Technicalities
• Biographical Digest
• Notes and Comments
• Biographies
• References
• Index.