Securing System Consistency: Coherence and Paradoxes

Friedrich Pukelsheim
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Friedrich Pukelsheim: Universität Augsburg, Institut für Mathematik

Chapter Chapter 9 in Proportional Representation, 2014, pp 117-125 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Apportionment methods are assessed from the collective viewpoint whether all variables act together in a consistent manner. A decisive requirement is coherence, demanding that the solution for an apportionment problem as a whole agrees with the solutions of all embedded subproblems.

Keywords: Party System; Fair Division; Partial Problem; House Size; Population Monotonicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03856-8_9

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