Mathematics and Democracy Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Simeone, Bruno (Editor), Pukelsheim, Friedrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare,
• Subjects: Political science.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Econometrics.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Political Science.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Table of Contents:

• 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.