Voting -- Two candidates -- Social choice functions -- Criteria for social choice -- Which methods are good? -- Arrow's theorem -- Variations on the theme -- Apportionment -- Hamilton's method -- Divisor methods -- Criteria and impossibility -- The method of Balinski and Young -- Deciding among divisor methods -- History of apportionment int he United States -- Conflict -- Strategies and outcomes -- Chance and expectation -- Solving zero-sum games -- Conflict and cooperation -- Nash equilibria -- The prisoner's dilemma -- The electoral college -- Weighted voting -- Whose advantage?
Summary
This book applies the power of mathematical thinking to problems in politics and public policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-452) and index
