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

by Bruno Simeone (Editor)

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.

268 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006