Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation - Paperback
by Ismar Volic
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248813ISBN-10:691248818UPC:9780691248813Book Category:Mathematics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Applied, Political Process, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Campaigns & Elections, DemocracySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC030ZSEW4
Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248813ISBN-10:691248818UPC:9780691248813Book Category:Mathematics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Applied, Political Process, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Campaigns & Elections, DemocracySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC030ZSEW4
Ismar Volic is professor of mathematics and director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. He is the author of many articles and books and has delivered more than three hundred lectures in more than twenty countries. His writing has appeared in The Hill, Time, and on Literary Hub, among other leading publications.
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