Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

by Steven J. Brams

Book Overview

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of mathematics to design decision-making processes, shows how social-choice and game theory could make political and social institutions more democratic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691133212
• ISBN13: 9780691133218
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"