Mathematics and democracy : designing better voting and fair-division procedures / Steven J. Brams.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, cop. 2008Description: xvi, 373 s. tabISBN: - 9780691133218
- 9780691133201
- 324.601/513 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Electing a single winner : approval voting in practice -- Electing a single winner : approval voting in theory -- Electing a single winner : combining approval and preference -- Electing multiple winners : constrained approval voting -- Electing multiple winners : the minimax procedure -- Electing multiple winners : minimizing misrepresentation -- Selecting winners in multiple elections -- Selecting a governing coalition in a parliament -- Allocating cabinet ministries in a parliament -- Allocating indivisible goods : help the worst off or avoid envy? -- Allocating a single divisible good : divide-the-dollar -- Allocating multiple divisible goods : adjusted winner -- Allocating a single heterogeneous good -- Allocating divisible and indivisible goods -- Summary and conclusions