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

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

How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What's the best way...
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
SKU: 9780691248806
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 0 left in stock
Author: Ismar Volic
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Subtotal: $72.48
10 customers are viewing this product
Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation by Volic, Ismar

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

$72.48
Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation by Volic, Ismar

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

$72.48
Author: Ismar Volic
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

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 grab bag of the shortsighted, the cynical, the innumerate, and the outright discriminatory. Making Democracy Count sheds new light on our electoral systems, revealing how a deeper understanding of their mathematics is the key to creating civic infrastructure that works for everyone.

In this timely guide, Ismar Volic empowers us to use mathematical thinking as an objective, nonpartisan framework that rises above the noise and rancor of today's divided public square. Examining our representative democracy using powerful clarifying concepts, Volic shows why our current voting system stifles political diversity, why the size of the House of Representatives contributes to its paralysis, why gerrymandering is a sinister instrument that entrenches partisanship and disenfranchisement, why the Electoral College must be rethought, and what can work better and why. Volic also discusses the legal and constitutional practicalities involved and proposes a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government.

Making Democracy Count gives us the concrete knowledge and the confidence to advocate for a more just, equitable, and inclusive democracy.

Author: Ismar Volic
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780691248806

About the Author
Ismar Volic is professor of mathematics and director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. His work has appeared in publications such as The Hill, Cognoscenti, and Education Week.
Shipping & Return

Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Review

Related Products

Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD
Example product title
$72.48 AUD
$72.48 AUD

Recently Viewed Products