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Perfect electoral equality is a conceptual ideal defying reality, a certain degree of inequality must be practically tolerated. Ways and means are discussed how to numerically evaluate the residue of disproportionality that apportionment methods inevitably carry along. Three approaches are explored.
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Pukelsheim, F. (2014). Appraising Electoral Equality: Goodness-of-Fit Criteria. In: Proportional Representation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03856-8_10
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