Multidimensional political apportionment.

ABSTRACT: Deciding how to allocate the seats of a deliberative assembly is one of the most fundamental problems in the political organization of societies and has been widely studied over two centuries already. The idea of proportionality is at the core of most approaches to tackle this problem, and this notion is captured by the divisor methods, such as the Jefferson/D’Hondt method. In a seminal work, Balinski and Demange extended the single-dimensional idea of divisor methods to the setting in which the seat allocation is simultaneously determined by two dimensions and proposed the so-called biproportional apportionment method. The method, currently used in several electoral systems, is, however, limited to two dimensions and the question of extending it is considered to be an important problem bo

SUBMITTER: Cembrano J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9169663 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature