Making democracy count: how mathematics improves voting, electoral maps, and representation (Record no. 62889)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691248806 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 324.60973 VOL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Volic, Ismar |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Making democracy count: how mathematics improves voting, electoral maps, and representation |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Princeton: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2024. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 392p.: |
| Other physical details | hbk.: |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Acknowledgement, Glossary, Notes and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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.<br/><br/>In this timely guide, Ismar Volić 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, Volić 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. Volić also discusses the legal and constitutional practicalities involved and proposes a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government.<br/><br/>Making Democracy Count gives us the concrete knowledge and the confidence to advocate for a more just, equitable, and inclusive democracy.<br/><br/>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248806/making-democracy-count?srsltid=AfmBOooVZx0blYHHx7mt9aVty_MXcuvLe6-YBMCyV7S_unWRdpqgfRZ3 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Suffrage |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Voting rights |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Electoral System |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Gerrymandering |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Democracy |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Electoral College |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 21/08/2025 | CBS Publishers | 2750.00 | 324.60973 VOL | 036124 | 21/08/2025 | 1 | 2750.00 | Books |
