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Mathematics and Democracy [electronic resource] : Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice / edited by Bruno Simeone, Friedrich Pukelsheim.

Contributor(s): Series: Studies in Choice and WelfarePublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006Description: XII, 256 p. 33 illus. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783540356059
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 330.1 23
LOC classification:
  • HB1-846.8
Online resources:
Contents:
Power Indices Taking into Account Agents’ Preferences -- The Sunfish Against the Octopus: Opposing Compactness to Gerrymandering -- Apportionment: Uni- and Bi-Dimensional -- Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments -- Comparison of Electoral Systems: Simulative and Game Theoretic Approaches -- How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting -- On Some Distance Aspects in Social Choice Theory -- Algorithms for Biproportional Apportionment -- Distance from Consensus: A Theme and Variations -- A Strategic Problem in Approval Voting -- The Italian Bug: A Flawed Procedure for Bi-Proportional Seat Allocation -- Current Issues of Apportionment Methods -- A Gentle Majority Clause for the Apportionment of Committee Seats -- Allotment According to Preferential Vote: Ecuador’s Elections -- Degressively Proportional Methods for the Allotment of the European Parliament Seats Amongst the EU Member States -- Hidden Mathematical Structures of Voting -- A Comparison of Electoral Formulae for the Faroese Parliament.
In: Springer eBooks
Item type: eBooks
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Power Indices Taking into Account Agents’ Preferences -- The Sunfish Against the Octopus: Opposing Compactness to Gerrymandering -- Apportionment: Uni- and Bi-Dimensional -- Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments -- Comparison of Electoral Systems: Simulative and Game Theoretic Approaches -- How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting -- On Some Distance Aspects in Social Choice Theory -- Algorithms for Biproportional Apportionment -- Distance from Consensus: A Theme and Variations -- A Strategic Problem in Approval Voting -- The Italian Bug: A Flawed Procedure for Bi-Proportional Seat Allocation -- Current Issues of Apportionment Methods -- A Gentle Majority Clause for the Apportionment of Committee Seats -- Allotment According to Preferential Vote: Ecuador’s Elections -- Degressively Proportional Methods for the Allotment of the European Parliament Seats Amongst the EU Member States -- Hidden Mathematical Structures of Voting -- A Comparison of Electoral Formulae for the Faroese Parliament.

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