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The Mathematics of Voting and Elections: A Hands-On Approach
About this Title
Jonathan K. Hodge, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI and Richard E. Klima, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Publication: Mathematical World
Publication Year:
2005; Volume 22
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3798-6 (print); 978-1-4704-1194-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mawrld/022
MathSciNet review: MR2139211
MSC: Primary 91B12; Secondary 91-01
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Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- 1. What’s so good about majority rule?
- 2. Perot, Nader, and other inconveniences
- 3. Back into the ring
- 4. Trouble in democracy
- 5. Explaining the impossible
- 6. One person, one vote?
- 7. Calculating corruption
- 8. The ultimate college experience
- 9. Trouble in direct democracy
- 10. Proportional (mis)representation