Gaming the Vote Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do about It)

Name: Gaming the Vote Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do about It)
Price: 6.75 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780809048922

ISBN-10: 0809048922

ISBN-13: 9780809048922

Edition: N/A

Authors: William Poundstone

List price: $24.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $19.99

Marketplace

4 new & used from $6.75

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But There's a Simple and Fair Solution At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a "spoiler"a minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The spoiler effect is more than a glitch. It is a consequence of one of the most surprising intellectual discoveries of the twentieth century: the "impossibility theorem" of Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow. The impossibility theorem asserts that voting is fundamentally unfaira finding that has not been lost on today's political consultants. Armed with polls, focus…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

William Poundstone has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. Among his seven books are "The Recursive Universe," "Labyrinths of Reason," and "Big Secrets." He has also written extensively for network television and major magazines. He lives in Los Angeles.