Abstract
Apportionment methods round vote proportions to integer numbers of seats in a parliament. An important issue is whether a given apportionment method treats larger and smaller parties equally or gives rise to seat biases. In this paper two models of quantifying seat biases of popular apportionment methods are compared to each other. The models are found to result in the same asymptotic behaviour when the number of seats available for apportionment grows large.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 191-200 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Statistical Papers |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Apportionment methods
- Rounding methods
- Seat bias
- Stationary divisor methods
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty