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- Title:
Asymptotic seat bias formulas
- Document type:
- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Author(s):
- Drton, Mathias; Schwingenschlögl, Udo
- Abstract:
- Apportionment methods are used to round the vote proportions of parties in a proportional representation system to integer numbers of seats in the parliament. Seat biases quantify by how much on average a particular apportionment method favors larger (or smaller) parties. In this paper, we prove a previous conjecture on asymptotic seat biases of stationary divisor methods and the quota method of greatest remainders, as the size of the parliament tends to infinity.
- Keywords:
- Apportionment methods, rounding methods, Webster, Jefferson, Hamilton, Sainte-Laguë, d’Hondt, Hare
- Dewey Decimal Classification:
- 510 Mathematik
- Journal title:
- Metrika
- Year:
- 2005
- Journal volume:
- 62
- Year / month:
- 2005-09
- Quarter:
- 3. Quartal
- Month:
- Sep
- Journal issue:
- 1
- Pages contribution:
- 23-31
- Language:
- en
- Fulltext / DOI:
- doi:10.1007/s001840400352
- Publisher:
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- E-ISSN:
- 0026-13351435-926X
- Date of publication:
- 01.09.2005
- Format:
- Text
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