One Man, One Vote, One Price

LA Koczy, BR Sziklai - One Vote, One Price (September 05, 2024), 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Introduced initially to allocate parliamentary seats among states or provinces, apportionment
methods can distribute any discrete scarce resource based on a series of claims or budgets …

Proportional Consistency of Apportionment Methods

MA Jones, D McCune, JM Wilson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06969, 2023 - arxiv.org
We analyze a little-known property of apportionment methods that captures how allocations
scale with the size of the house: specifically, if, for a fixed population distribution, the house …

Theory of ranked-choice and approval ballots for delegate-allocation tasks and analysis of the ranked-choice delegate allocation system introduced in the 2020 US …

M Dunitz, E Herold-Reverdin - Available at SSRN 4839562, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The US Democratic Party introduced a novel electoral system in four 2020 contests.
Before proportional representation (PR) apportionment using Hamilton's method, instant …

An iterative procedure for apportionment and its use in the 2016 Georgia Republican primary

MA Jones, D McCune, J Wilson - Mathematical Analyses of …, 2024 - books.google.com
For the 2016 US presidential primary, the Georgia Republican Party created a new method,
which we call the Iterated Lower Quota (ILQ) method, to apportion delegates using a series …

The Novel Electoral System Introduced in the 2020 US Democratic Party's Presidential Nomination Process Subverts Proportional Representation

M Dunitz - Available at SSRN 4461176, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract In 2020, the US Democratic Party began experimenting with a novel electoral
system, based off that of the party-run caucuses. In each contest, this electoral system …