A mathematical look at politics /
This book applies the power of mathematical thinking to problems in politics and public policy.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?