The Hamilton Apportionment Method Is Between the Adams Method and the Jefferson Method

DOI10.1287/MOOR.1060.0192MaRDI QIDQ5387986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luc Lauwers, Tom Van Puyenbroeck

Publication date 27 May 2008

Published in Mathematics of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.1060.0192

zbMATH Keywords

apportionmentdiscrete allocationdivisor methodsmajorizationproportional representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete location and assignment (90B80) Voting theory (91B12) Social choice (91B14) History, political science (91F10)

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