Division of seats in the European Parliament

Cegiełka Katarzyna, Dniestrzański Piotr, Misztal Andrzej and Łyko Janusz
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Łyko Janusz: Wrocław University of Economics, Komandorska Street 118/120, 53-345 Wrocław Poland

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2010, vol. 16, issue 1-2, 39-55

Abstract: The European Parliament is one of the most important institutions of the European Union. One of its main tasks is to represent the citizens of the European Union. The representation power of a state depends on its population. Unfortunately the number of inhabitants of states is distinguished by wide dispersion and the most popular methods based on the simple proportionality cannot be used in the European Parliament seats allotment. Therefore, different from proportional method is used - "the degressive proportionality method".

Keywords: degressive proportionality; democracy; European Parliament; fair division (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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