Mathematics and Democracy
Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice
Editors: Simeone, Bruno, Pukelsheim, Friedrich (Eds.)
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From the reviews:
"The … book is an edited volume, and exhibits both the flaws and virtues of that genre. … I found the book interesting and important. … the book is well worth having on your shelf. … It would be useful, in fact, as a classroom exercise for students in a variety of disciplines, because it both illustrates the unnatural power of mathematics to illuminate hard questions and unites several apparently unrelated problems in a single analytic rubric. … this is a valuable and important book." (Michael Munger, Public Choice, Vol. 132, 2007)
"This is a fine collection of 17 papers chosen from contributions to the International Workshop on Mathematics and Democracy: Voting Systems and Collective Choice that took place in Erice, Sicily in 2005. … one will walk away from this volume with the sense that one has been exposed to the research frontier of the electoral system theory." (Ugur Ozdemir, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 31, 2008)
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Power Indices Taking into Account Agents’ Preferences
Pages 1-18
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The Sunfish Against the Octopus: Opposing Compactness to Gerrymandering
Pages 19-41
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Apportionment: Uni- and Bi-Dimensional
Pages 43-53
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Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments
Pages 55-64
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Comparison of Electoral Systems: Simulative and Game Theoretic Approaches
Pages 65-81
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Mathematics and Democracy
- Book Subtitle
- Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice
- Editors
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- Bruno Simeone
- Friedrich Pukelsheim
- Series Title
- Studies in Choice and Welfare
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-35605-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/3-540-35605-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-35603-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-07133-1
- Series ISSN
- 1614-0311
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 256
- Number of Illustrations
- 33 b/w illustrations
- Topics