Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Bet

📁 Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

✍ Steven J. Brams 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of mathe

Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Bet

📁 Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

✍ Steven J. Brams 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of mathe

Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Bet

📁 Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

✍ Steven J. Brams 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the us

Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Bet

📁 Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

✍ Steven J. Brams 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

I enjoyed this book. Brams does provide mathematical proofs of his propositions in the chapter appendices, but overall, this is a fairly accessible and wide-ranging overview of Brams' current thinking on voting rules and fair-division procedures. One of the most interesting contributions of this boo

Defining Democracy: Voting Procedures in

📁 Defining Democracy: Voting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance

✍ Peter Emerson (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in el

Defining Democracy: Voting Procedures in

📁 Defining Democracy: Voting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance

✍ Peter Emerson (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in el