Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation

by Ismar Volic

Book Overview

How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it

What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069124880X
• ISBN13: 9780691248806
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"