{"product_id":"making-democracy-count-how-mathematics-improves-voting-electoral-maps-and-representation-ismar-volic-hardcover","title":"Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation -- Ismar Volic, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat'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. \u003ci\u003eMaking Democracy Count\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Democracy Count\u003c\/i\u003e gives us the concrete knowledge and the confidence to advocate for a more just, equitable, and inclusive democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ismar Volic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691248806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsmar Volic\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of mathematics and director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. His work has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCognoscenti\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEducation Week\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ismar Volic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45763105161444,"sku":"9780691248806","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780691248806.jpg?v=1730831567","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/making-democracy-count-how-mathematics-improves-voting-electoral-maps-and-representation-ismar-volic-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}