Proportional Representation : Apportionment Methods and Their Applications /: Apportionment Methods and Their Applications. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Friedrich Pukelsheim.
• Authors: Pukelsheim, Friedrich
• 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.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 519; Mathematics; Proportional representation; Apportionment (Election law); Apportionment (Election law); Proportional representation; Mathematics; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Political Science; Social Science -- Statistics; Political Science -- General; Social research & statistics; Political science & theory; Statistics; Political science; Mathematics -- Game Theory; Game theory; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319647074; 3319647075
• Related ISBNs: 9783319647067; 3319647067
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 3, 2018).
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