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Title Mathematics and democracy : recent advances in voting systems and collective choice / Bruno Simeone, Friedrich Pukelsheim, (editors)
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in choice and welfare
Studies in choice and welfare.
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
Summary Different quantitative approaches to the study of electoral systems have been developed: game-theoretic, decision-theoretic, statistical, probabilistic, combinatorial, geometric, and optimization ones. This book contains contributions from prominent scholars from these disciplines
Analysis economie
economics
bedrijfswetenschap
management science
economische theorie
economic theory
speltheorie
game theory
wiskunde
mathematics
politicologie
political science
Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science (General)
Economics (General)
Management, bedrijfskunde, organisatiekunde (algemeen)
Economie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Voting -- Mathematical models -- Congresses
Elections -- Mathematical models -- Congresses
Social choice -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
Elections -- Mathematical models.
Social choice.
Voting -- Mathematical models.
Affaires.
Science économique.
Economie de l'entreprise.
Elections -- Mathematical models.
Social choice.
Voting -- Mathematical models.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Simeone, B. (Bruno)
Pukelsheim, Friedrich, 1948-
ISBN 9783540356059
3540356053
3540356037
9783540356035
6610744238
9786610744237
Other Titles Mathematics & democracy