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U.S Presidential Elections and the Referendum Paradox*
In the United States, the president is elected by the Electoral Col- lege (EC) and not directly by individual voters. This can give rise to a so-called referendum paradox in which one candidate receives more popular votes than any other, but this candidate is not elected. The 2000 election is an example of this phenomenon. Can the EC be reformed so that a referendum paradox never arises? We consider vary- ing three natural parameters. First, we consider changing the method of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives to states. Sec- ond, we consider changing the total number of seats in the House. Intuition suggests that as the number of seats approaches the number
A Problem of Fair Division: Apportioning the European Parliament
In this paper certain natural and desirable properties for apportionment are formulated, and it is shown that they lead to a unique procedure for determining solutions. This procedure is then applied to the case of the European Parliament
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