Seat allocation distributions and seat biases of stationary apportionment methods for proportional representation

Seat biases of apportionment methods und

Seat biases of apportionment methods under general distributional assumptions

✍ U. Schwingenschlögl 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 137 KB

Apportionment methods round vote proportions to integer numbers of seats in parliament. Seat biases of an apportionment method are expected differences between the seats actually apportioned to the parties and their ideal fractional shares of seats. In this letter it is shown that, for many popular