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Mathematics and democracy : designing better voting and fair-division procedures
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Mathematics and democracy : designing better voting and fair-division procedures / Steven J. Brams.
ISBN
9780691133201 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691133204 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691133218 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691133212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xvi, 373 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-362) and index.
Contents
Electing a single winner : approval voting in practice
Electing a single winner : approval voting in theory
Electing a single winner : combining approval and preference
Electing multiple winners : constrained approval voting
Electing multiple winners : the minimax procedure
Electing multiple winners : minimizing misrepresentation
Selecting winners in multiple elections
Selecting a governing coalition in a parliament
Allocating cabinet ministries in a parliament
Allocating indivisible goods : help the worst-off or avoid envy?
Allocating a single homogeneous divisible good : divide-the-dollar
Allocating multiple homogeneous divisible goods : adjusted winner
Allocating a single heterogeneous good : cutting a cake
Allocating divisible and indivisible goods
Summary and conclusions.
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