Ep 33 Ch 13 "Choices" Part 1. Some readings and remarks.
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The Paradox of the Apportionment Rule
An apportionment rule is said to stay within the quota if the number of seats that it allocates to each state never differs from the state's quota by as much as the whole seat. For instance, if a state's quota is 4.35 seats, then to stayWithin the quota, a rule must assign that state either four seats or five. It may take all sorts of information into account and choosing between four and five seems perfectly fair and reasonable. But in fact there can be no such perfectly rational, fairapportionment rule.
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