Probabilities of majority and minority violation in proportional representation

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2007.04.024MaRDI QIDQ2471246zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors U. Schwingenschlögl

Publication date 22 February 2008

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2007.04.024

zbMATH Keywords

apportionment methodgeometric-combinatorial approachHamilton methodmajority criterionminority criterionstationary divisor methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12) Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

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