FAIR DIVISION IN ALLOCATING CABINET MINISTRIES

Steven J. Brams

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190469733.013.45

FAIR DIVISION IN ALLOCATING CABINET MINISTRIES

Steven J. Brams

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This chapter describes a mechanism for allocating cabinet ministries, considered to be indivisible goods, to political parties in a parliamentary government according to the proportion of seats that each party holds in a parliament. It precludes the usual bargaining and horse trading over how many, and which, ministries each party will get by using one of two apportionment schemes that prescribe the order of choice in which parties, based on their size, choose ministries. It was used, in modified form, to allocate ministries to each of the major Catholic and Protestant political parties in Northern Ireland in 1999.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	887-898
Number of pages	12
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9780190469733
ISBN (Print)	9780190469740
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190469733.013.45
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

Keywords

apportionment
bargaining in parliaments
cabinet ministries
fair division
Northern Ireland

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
General Business, Management and Accounting

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