Gaming the vote : why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it) / William Poundstone.
Gaming the vote : why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it) / William Poundstone.
Gaming the vote : why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it) / William Poundstone.
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New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N324.973/ 47
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English
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xii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prologue : the wizard and the lizard -- The problem -- 1. Game theory -- 2. The Big Bang -- 3. A short history of vote splitting -- 4. The most evil man in America -- 5. Run, Ralph, run! -- 6. Year of the spoiler -- The solution -- 7. Trouble in Kiribati -- 8. The new belfry -- 9. Instant runoff --...
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New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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2008.
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"At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate, but these results were not inevitable casualties of the American voting system. In fact, such an unfair outcome need never happen again: as William Poundstone shows in Gaming the Vote, the solution is lurking right under our noses."
"In all five cases, the vote was upset by a "spoiler" - a minor candidate who took enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The answer to the spoiler problems lies in a system called range voting, which would satisfy both right and left. Already widely used on the Internet, range voting is the fairest v...
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Gaming the vote : why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it) / William Poundstone.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-324) and index.
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0809048930 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780809048939 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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324.973
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991023845389702626
