Mathematics and democracy : designing better voting and fair-division procedures / Steven J. Brams

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 divisible good : divide-the-dollar -- Allocating multiple divisible goods : adjusted winner -- Allocating a single heterogeneous good -- Allocating divisible and indivisible goods -- Summary and conclusions.

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

c2008

Erschienen:

Princeton, NJ u.a.: Princeton Univ. Press ; c2008

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brams, Steven J., 1940- [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zentralblatt MATH
Table of contents only

ISBN:

978-0-691-13321-8

978-0-691-13320-1

BKL:

89.57 / Politische Beteiligung

89.03 / Theorie und Methoden der Politologie

Themen:

Elections
Finance, Public
Mathematisches Modell
Voting
Wahl
Wahlsystem

RVK:

RVK Klassifikation

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Umfang:

XVI, 373 S ; graph. Darst. ; 24 cm

Weitere IDs:

9780691133201

9780691133218

2007023584

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

533117593