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Asymptotic Seat Bias Formulas
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Asymptotic Seat Bias Formulas

Mathias Drton and Udo Schwingenschlogl
Metrika, Vol.62(1), pp.23-31
01/09/2005

Abstract

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Apportionment methods are used to round the vote proportions of parties in a proportional representation system to integer numbers of seats in the parliament. Seat biases quantify by how much on average a particular apportionment method favors larger (or smaller) parties. In this paper, we prove a previous conjecture on asymptotic seat biases of stationary divisor methods and the quota method of greatest remainders, as the size of the parliament tends to infinity.

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