A Mathematical Approach to Proportional Representation: Duncan Black on Lewis Carroll

by Iain McLean

Book Overview

' This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about a little-known subject, the theory of voting ' (from the Editors' Introduction). This book has been edited from the manuscripts of the late Scottish economist Duncan Black. Shortly after the publication of The Theory of Committees and Elections Black started to collect material for papers and a book on Lewis Carroll's theory of proportional representation. Black's chapter plans made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792396200
• ISBN13: 9780792396208
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"