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Chaotic Elections! - A Mathematician Looks at Voting (Paperback)
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Chaotic Elections! - A Mathematician Looks at Voting (Paperback)
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What does the 2000 US Presidential Election have in common with
selecting a textbook for a calculus course in your department? Was
Ralph Nader's influence on the election of George W. Bush greater
than the now-famous chads? In this book, Don Saari analyzes these
questions, placing them in the larger context of voting systems in
general. His analysis shows that the fundamental problems with the
2000 presidential election are not with the courts, recounts or
defective ballots, but are caused by the very way Americans vote
for president This expository book shows how mathematics can help
to identify and characterize a disturbingly large number of
paradoxical situations that result from the choice of a voting
procedure. Moreover, rather than being able to dismiss them as
anomalies, the likelihood of a dubious election result is
surprisingly large. These consequences indicate that election
outcomes - whether for president, the site of the next Olympics,
the chair of a university department, or a prize winner-can differ
from what the voters really wanted. They show that by using an
inadequate voting procedure, we can, inadvertently, choose badly.
To add to the difficulties, it turns out
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