Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting

Name: Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting
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ISBN: 9780821828472

ISBN-10: 0821828479

ISBN-13: 9780821828472

Edition: 2001

Authors: Donald G. Saari

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What does the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election have in common with selecting a textbook for a calculus course in your department? Was Ralph Nader's influence on the election of George W. Bush greater than the now-famous chads? In Chaotic Elections!, Don Saari analyzes these questions, placing them in the larger context of voting systems in general. His analysis shows that the fundamental problems with the 2000 presidential election are not with the courts, recounts or defective ballots, but are caused by the very way Americans vote for president. This expository book shows how mathematics can help to identify and characterize a disturbingly large number of paradoxical situations that result…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Publication date: 4/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 159
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



A mess of an election Voter preferences, or the procedure?


Chaotic election outcomes How to be strategic


What do the voters want?


Other procedures; other assumptions


Bibliography


Index