Overview
- With a foreword by Andrew Duff, MEP
- A rigorous study of electoral systems in Europe
- A detailed compendium of provable quantitative properties in representation systems
- Examples of method intrinsic properties: seat biases, majorization relations, double proportionality, and many more
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“The monograph presents a contemporary approach to finding proportional representation for parliamentary democracy institutions needed for distribution of the seat numbers close as possible to a structure of the vote counts. … The variety of mathematical settings and innovative techniques presented in the book can be useful to political scientists and graduate students in solving both theoretical and applied problems.” (Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, Vol. 59 (3), July, 2017)
“This book contains a rich and complete analysis of both the mathematics of apportionment methods and the application of apportionment methods used in most parliamentary elections. … The topic of this book is not only suitable for mathematicians, but also for politicians, historians and also for people interested in constitutional law and European law. … The mathematical expositions are presented in a clear, concise and clever way.” (Dharma Lesmono, Mathematical Reviews, January, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Proportional Representation
Book Subtitle: Apportionment Methods and Their Applications
Authors: Friedrich Pukelsheim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03856-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03856-8Published: 18 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 234
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Political Science