A Gentle Majority Clause for the Apportionment of Committee Seats

Friedrich Pukelsheim and Sebastian Maier
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Friedrich Pukelsheim: Universität Augsburg
Sebastian Maier: Universität Augsburg

A chapter in Mathematics and Democracy, 2006, pp 177-188 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The divisor method with standard rounding (Sainte-Laguë/Schepers) is amended by a gentle majority clause, in order to map the government majority in parliament into a seat majority in committees.

Keywords: Divisor method with standard rounding (Sainte-Laguë/Schepers), D’Hondt; Hill, Hare/Niemeyer, Adams, Condorcet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-35605-3_13

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