За един незабелязан досега парадокс в системата на Хеър-Ниимайер
Hitherto Unnoticed Paradox in the Hare-Niemeyer System
Author(s): Martin TabakovSubject(s): Civil Society, Electoral systems, Politics and law, Politics and society
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: paradox; elections; Hare-Niemeyer; psychological paradox; intuition
Summary/Abstract: When, unexpectedly, an otherwise logically correct proposition is seen to contradict common sense and intuition, we have what is called a “psychological paradox” or a “paradox of intuition”. Here, the author presents one such hitherto unnoticed paradox: “At elections for the European Parliament conducted using the Hare-Niemeyer method of distribution of mandates, a situation may arise where, if a party P were to increase its number of votes while the number of votes for the other parties remained unchanged, P would get a smaller number of MPs
Journal: Философски алтернативи
- Issue Year: XXV/2016
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 135-141
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English, Bulgarian
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