Article ID: | iaor200928581 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 390 |
End Page Number: | 397 |
Publication Date: | May 2006 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Lauwers Luc, Van Puyenbroeck Tom |
Keywords: | voting systems |
The Adams apportionment method is the only divisor method that consistently favors small districts relative to the Hamilton method. The Jefferson method is the only divisor method that favors large districts relative to the Hamilton method. These statements hold for the Balinski and Young (1978) interpretation of ‘favoring small/large districts,’ and for the partial ‘majorization ranking’ introduced by Marshall et al. (2002). As such, Hamilton is positioned in between Adams and Jefferson.