Mathematical Approaches To Understanding Democracy Emerging Research And Opportunities

Author : Arteta, Alberto
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522575596
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Approaches to Understanding Democracy: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Arteta, Alberto and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The democratic system is understood and accepted as the fairest form of government in Western countries. Nevertheless, citizens tend to critique their democratically elected rulers. Mathematical Approaches to Understanding Democracy: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that provides an analysis on the global political systems and provides insight on how to optimize government capabilities, citizen engagement, and educational systems. Using statistical concepts, it proposes algorithmic solutions to detect problems and provide improvement on democratic and non-democratic societies. Featuring research on topics such as political negligence, voter knowledge, political corruption, and democratic training, this book is ideally designed for governmental officials, policymakers, educators, statisticians, academicians, and researchers.

Author : Karl Wolfgang Deutsch
Publisher : San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Approaches to Politics written by Karl Wolfgang Deutsch and published by San Francisco : Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1973 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Paolo Serafini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030383687
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics to the Rescue of Democracy written by Paolo Serafini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains, in a straightforward way, the foundations upon which electoral techniques are based in order to shed new light on what we actually do when we vote. The intention is to highlight the fact that no matter how an electoral system has been designed, and regardless of the intentions of those who devised the system, there will be goals that are impossible to achieve but also opportunities for improving the situation in an informed way. While detailed descriptions of electoral systems are not provided, many references are made to current or past situations, both as examples and to underline particular problems and shortcomings. In addition, a new voting method that avoids the many paradoxes of voting theory is described in detail. While some knowledge of mathematics is required in order to gain the most from the book, every effort has been made to ensure that the subject matter is easily accessible for non-mathematicians, too. In short, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the meaning of voting.

Author : Steven J. Brams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835593
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and Democracy written by Steven J. Brams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of mathematics to design decision-making processes, shows how social-choice and game theory could make political and social institutions more democratic. Using mathematical analysis, he develops rigorous new procedures that enable voters to better express themselves and that allow disputants to divide goods more fairly. One of the procedures that Brams proposes is "approval voting," which allows voters to vote for as many candidates as they like or consider acceptable. There is no ranking, and the candidate with the most votes wins. The voter no longer has to consider whether a vote for a preferred but less popular candidate might be wasted. In the same vein, Brams puts forward new, more equitable procedures for resolving disputes over divisible and indivisible goods.

Author : Andranik Tangian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642387241
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Theory of Democracy written by Andranik Tangian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mathematical theory of democracy deals with selection of representatives who make decisions on behalf of the whole society. In this book, the notion of representativeness is operationalized with the index of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on a number of issues) and the index of universality (the frequency of cases when the opinion of a majority is represented). These indices are applied to evaluate and study the properties of single representatives (e.g. president) and representative bodies (e.g. parliament, magistrate, cabinet, jury, coalition). To bridge representative and direct democracy, an election method is proposed that is based not on voting but on indexing candidates with respect to the electorate’s political profile. In addition, societal and non-societal applications are considered.

Author : Cathy O'Neil
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 : 0553418815
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons of Math Destruction written by Cathy O'Neil and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2016 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.

Author : George Szpiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209081
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Numbers Rule written by George Szpiro and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems, such as the Alabama Paradox, in which an increase in the number of seats in the Congress could actually lead to a reduced number of representatives for a state, and the Condorcet Paradox, which demonstrates that the winner of elections featuring more than two candidates does not necessarily reflect majority preferences. Szpiro takes a roughly chronological approach to the topic, traveling from ancient Greece to the present and, in addition to offering explanations of the various mathematical conundrums of elections and voting, also offers biographical details on the mathematicians and other thinkers who thought about them, including Plato, Pliny the Younger, Pierre Simon Laplace, Thomas Jefferson, John von Neumann, and Kenneth Arrow.

Author : George W. Noblit
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319216449
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Equity, Economy: Crafting a New Intersection written by George W. Noblit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will introduce the readers to an alternative nexus of education, equity and economy, pointing to economies and educations that promote a less stratified and exploitive world, and as the chapter authors demonstrate, this view has a wide range of applications, from technology, mathematics, to environmental catastrophes and indigenous cultures. This first volume in the new book series not only introduces the series itself, but also several authors whose chapters that appear here presage the in-depth analysis that will be offered by their volumes in the series. Education is invoked repeatedly in the ‘class warfare’ that pits the population against the elites as the investment that makes the difference, in terms of both policy and individual commitment, in the economy. The economy in this scenario is competitive, accumulative, exploitive and stratifying, implying education should mirror this and prepare people to fit this economy. However, education has other historic goals of developing common cultures, national identities, and civic engagement that belie this form of economic determinism. This volume and the series will explore this new nexus of economy and education with equity.

Author : Pierluigi Contucci
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030053334
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Digital Democracy written by Pierluigi Contucci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital democracy is a hot topic nowadays, its relevance growing along with the impact of computational platforms on our(political) life. Communication is the basal fabric on which society is defined, and it appears obvious that the civic organisation and politics itself should take the opportunities the "digital revolution" offers. Institutional inertia, nevertheless, causes large delays in updating and adapting. Therefore, the balance between participation and delegated representation is now facing a crisis. A thorough understanding of the factors involved in participation is a first step towards providing solutions. Using the Internet to fill the gap and build a digital democracy provides an opportunity, along with several risks that need to be carefully analysed. It needs to be implemented using a fully inter- and trans-disciplinary perspective. The six contributions included in this State-of-the Art Survey present research in the field of social sciences as well as mathematics and computer science and aim at contributing to a better understanding of the potential and dangers of digital democracy, helping readers go beyond the misunderstandings, the misconceptions,and the conceptual and practical abuses that the very notion of democracy is undergoing during this age of technological revolution and social turmoils.