A criterion for estimating the favoring of beneficiaries in apportionments

Abstract

There is proposed a criterion to quantitatively estimate the favoring of large or small beneficiaries in particular apportionments and on the whole (on an infinity of cases) by apportionment methods. By computer simulation, it is shown that the favoring of beneficiaries by d’Hondt method can be considerable, in total overpassing 10 of apportioned entities.