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Majorization provides a partial order of apportionment methods. When passing from one method to another, every group of stronger parties gets more seats and the complementary group of weaker parties fewer seats, or they keep what they have. Specifically, one divisor method majorizes another if and only if their signpost ratios are strictly increasing.
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Pukelsheim, F. (2014). Preferring Stronger Parties to Weaker Parties: Majorization. In: Proportional Representation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03856-8_8
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