Randomized trial surveys apportionment methods for accurate seat allocation in political parties, suggesting improved fairness.
Apportionment is the problem of allocating seats to political parties in a parliament in proportion to their deserved representation or to allocate the number of representatives to states in proportion to their size. Throughout history, most of the focus is on deterministic methods to apportion seats among the groups which may favour bigger or smaller parties or may have some inherent mathematical limitations. We survey various randomized rules that achieve exact apportionment in expectation.
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