Simeone / Pukelsheim Mathematics and Democracy

Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice
2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-35605-9
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Choice and Welfare

In this book, different quantitative approaches to the study of electoral systems have been developed: game-theoretic, decision-theoretic, statistical, probabilistic, combinatorial, geometric, and optimization ones. All the authors are prominent scholars from these disciplines. Quantitative approaches offer a powerful tool to detect inconsistencies or poor performance in actual systems. Applications to concrete settings such as EU, American Congress, regional, and committee voting are discussed.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simeone, Bruno

Pukelsheim, Friedrich

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Power Indices Taking into Account Agents’ Preferences.- The Sunfish Against the Octopus: Opposing Compactness to Gerrymandering.- Apportionment: Uni- and Bi-Dimensional.- Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments.- Comparison of Electoral Systems: Simulative and Game Theoretic Approaches.- How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting.- On Some Distance Aspects in Social Choice Theory.- Algorithms for Biproportional Apportionment.- Distance from Consensus: A Theme and Variations.- A Strategic Problem in Approval Voting.- The Italian Bug: A Flawed Procedure for Bi-Proportional Seat Allocation.- Current Issues of Apportionment Methods.- A Gentle Majority Clause for the Apportionment of Committee Seats.- Allotment According to Preferential Vote: Ecuador’s Elections.- Degressively Proportional Methods for the Allotment of the European Parliament Seats Amongst the EU Member States.- Hidden Mathematical Structures of Voting.- A Comparison of Electoral Formulae for the Faroese Parliament.