Overview
In this book, different quantitative approaches to the study of electoral systems have been developed: game-theoretic, decision-theoretic, statistical, probabilistic, combinatorial, geometric, and optimization ones. All the authors are prominent scholars from these disciplines. Quantitative approaches offer a powerful tool to detect inconsistencies or poor performance in actual systems. Applications to concrete settings such as EU, American Congress, regional, and committee voting are discussed.
Full Product Details
Author: Bruno Simeone ,
Friedrich Pukelsheim
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9783642071331
ISBN 10: 3642071333
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 25 November 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
From the reviews: The ... book is an edited volume, and exhibits both the flaws and virtues of that genre. ... I found the book interesting and important. ... the book is well worth having on your shelf. ... It would be useful, in fact, as a classroom exercise for students in a variety of disciplines, because it both illustrates the unnatural power of mathematics to illuminate hard questions and unites several apparently unrelated problems in a single analytic rubric. ... this is a valuable and important book. (Michael Munger, Public Choice, Vol. 132, 2007) This is a fine collection of 17 papers chosen from contributions to the International Workshop on Mathematics and Democracy: Voting Systems and Collective Choice that took place in Erice, Sicily in 2005. ... one will walk away from this volume with the sense that one has been exposed to the research frontier of the electoral system theory. (Ugur Ozdemir, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 31, 2008)
From the reviews: The ! book is an edited volume, and exhibits both the flaws and virtues of that genre. ! I found the book interesting and important. ! the book is well worth having on your shelf. ! It would be useful, in fact, as a classroom exercise for students in a variety of disciplines, because it both illustrates the unnatural power of mathematics to illuminate hard questions and unites several apparently unrelated problems in a single analytic rubric. ! this is a valuable and important book. (Michael Munger, Public Choice, Vol. 132, 2007) This is a fine collection of 17 papers chosen from contributions to the International Workshop on Mathematics and Democracy: Voting Systems and Collective Choice that took place in Erice, Sicily in 2005. ! one will walk away from this volume with the sense that one has been exposed to the research frontier of the electoral system theory. (Ugur Ozdemir, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 31, 2008)
From the reviews: The ... book is an edited volume, and exhibits both the flaws and virtues of that genre. ... I found the book interesting and important. ... the book is well worth having on your shelf. ... It would be useful, in fact, as a classroom exercise for students in a variety of disciplines, because it both illustrates the unnatural power of mathematics to illuminate hard questions and unites several apparently unrelated problems in a single analytic rubric. ... this is a valuable and important book. (Michael Munger, Public Choice, Vol. 132, 2007) This is a fine collection of 17 papers chosen from contributions to the International Workshop on Mathematics and Democracy: Voting Systems and Collective Choice that took place in Erice, Sicily in 2005. ... one will walk away from this volume with the sense that one has been exposed to the research frontier of the electoral system theory. (Ugur Ozdemir, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 31, 2008)
