Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation

by Ismar Volic

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How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it

What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:069124880X

ISBN13:9780691248806

Release Date:April 2024

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Math Mathematics Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Science & Math

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