The Webster method of apportionment

DOI10.1073/pnas.77.1.1zbMath0432.90101OpenAlexW2047703957WikidataQ33238744 ScholiaQ33238744MaRDI QIDQ3870710

H. Peyton Young

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.77.1.1

zbMATH Keywords

representationfair divisionallocationapportionmentdivisor methodsgovernmental systemunbiased methoddemocratic representationmajor fractions methodmethod of odd numberspopulation monotone methodU.S. constitutionWebster method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Game theory (91A99) Social choice (91B14) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

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