The Webster method of apportionment

DOI10.1073/PNAS.77.1.1zbMATH Open0432.90101OpenAlexW2047703957WikidataQ33238744 ScholiaQ33238744MaRDI QIDQ3870710FDOQ3870710

Michel Balinski, H. Peyton Young

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.77.1.1

zbMATH Keywords

apportionmentallocationrepresentationfair divisiondivisor methodsgovernmental systemunbiased methoddemocratic representationmajor fractions methodmethod of odd numberspopulation monotone methodU.S. constitutionWebster method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Game theory (91A99) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

Cited In (5)

• Hybrid Hamilton-Webster and the Greek apportionment
• Webster sequences, apportionment problems, and just-in-time sequencing
• The whole and its parts: on the coherence theorem of Balinski and Young
• Bounds on malapportionment
• Apportionment with parity constraints

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