definition, is not compatible with monotonicity and Harequota properties, two standard requirements of apportionment rules. We … lexicographically minimized. This apportionment rule is a welldefined allocation mechanism compatible with and derived from the … recommendation of the Venice Commission. Finally, we compare this apportionment rule with mainstream mechanisms using real data from …

and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …

theory are either context dependent or subject to unreasonable restrictions. This is the real source of the diverse … "paradoxes of voting" that would better be termed "voting pathologies". The theory leads me to advocate what I term evaluative …