Seat biases of apportionment methods for proportional representation

Electoral Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 651-676

  Schuster, Karsten ^a   Pukelsheim, Friedrich ^b   Drton, Mathias ^c   Draper, Norman R ^d  

^a Gymnasium Marktoberdorf   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Hamilton; Hare; Hondt; Jefferson; Sainte Lagu ; Webster

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL SYSTEM; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; SOLOTHURN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141976818     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-3794(02)00027-6     Document Type: Article

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