Duncan Black

The Theory of Committees and Elections

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781013678790
• ISBN-10: 1013678796
• Artikelnr.: 65532901

Inhaltsangabe

I The Theory of Committees and Elections.- I. A Committee and Motions.- II. Independent Valuation.- III. Can a Motion be Represented by the same Symbol on Different Schedules?.- IV. A Committee using a Simple Majority: Single-peaked Preference Curves.- V. A Committee using a Simple Majority: other Shapes of Preference Curves.- VI. A Committee using a Simple Majority: any Shapes of Preference Curves, Number of Motions Finite.- VII. Cyclical Majorities.- VIII. When the Ordinary Committee Procedure is in use the Members' Scales of Valuation may be Incomplete.- IX. Which Candidate ought to be Elected?.- X. Examination of some Methods of Election in Single-member Constituencies.- XI. Proportional Representation.- XII. The Decisions of a Committee using a Special Majority.- XIII. The Elasticity of Committee Decisions with an Altering Size of Majority.- XIV. The Elasticity of Committee Decisions with Alterations in the Members' Preference Schedules.- XV. The Converse Problem: the Group of Schedules to Correspond to a Given Voting Matrix.- XVI. A Committee using a Simple Majority: Complementary Motions.- XVII. International Agreements, Sovereignty and the Cabinet.- II History of the Mathematical Theory of Committees and Elections (Excluding Proportional Representation).- XVIII. Borda, Condorcet and Laplace.- XIX. E. J. Nanson and Francis Galton.- XX. The Circumstances in which Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote his Three Pamphlets.- Appendix. Text of Dodgson's Three Pamphlets and of 'The Cyclostyled Sheet'.- A Discussion of the Various Methods of Procedure in Conducting Elections (1873).- Suggestions as to the Best Method of Taking Votes, Where More than Two Issues are to be Voted on (1874).- A Method of Taking Votes on More than Two Issues (1876) 'TheCyclostyled Sheet' (7 Dec. 1877).- Notes on Dodgson's Third Pamphlet 'A Method...' (1876).