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 .p0  .p104 Anonymity . Neutrality . Monotonicity . Majority . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_winner | Condorcet ]] . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_irrelevant_alternatives | Independence of irrelevant alternatives ]]
 .p104 Kenneth Arrow shows we can call off the search party.
 .p105 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arrow | Kenneth Arrow ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Choice_and_Individual_Values | Social Choice and Individual Values ]] 1951
 .p106 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen | Amartya Sen ]] Nobel Economics 1998
  ."individual liberties are incompatible with social needs" (???)

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 .p18  .p189 Webster apportionment or major fractions or [[ Sainte-Laguë ]] method
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB | André Sainte-Laguë ]] (1882–1950) 1910
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster | Daniel Webster ]]( 1782-1852 ) 1832
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 .'''p207 ch10 A Country Divided'''
 .207 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering | gerrymandering ]]

 .'''p304 An Infrastructure Plan'''
  * Use instant runoff voting in single winner elections
  * Eliminate the Electoral College
  * Use popular vote with instant runoff for presidential elections
  * Use multimember districts with single transferrable voting
  * Increase the size of the House of Representatives
  * Use the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_method | Webster apportionment method ]]
  * Use independent districting commissions
  * Introduce more political quantitative literacy into school curricula

Making Democracy Count

Ismar Volic . 2024 . BvtLib 324.6 VOL


Part 1 . Voting

Around page 108, I stopped reading and skimming. Voting is important, and I mostly agree with the author's conclusions, but I focus on other world-survival priorities which receive very little attention.

  • p112 ch05 To Each Their Own

  • p124 ch06 Strategy and Manipulation

  • p124 Academic hiring... choosing the method to bias outcome
  • p141 ch07 And the Winner Is...

Part2 . Representation

  • p149 ch08 This Old House

  • p173 ch09 Rather Devisive than Indecisive

  • p183 ch10 Divisor and Conquer

  • p189 Webster apportionment or major fractions or Sainte-Laguë method

  • p190
  • p207 ch10 A Country Divided

  • 207 gerrymandering

  • p304 An Infrastructure Plan

    • Use instant runoff voting in single winner elections
    • Eliminate the Electoral College
    • Use popular vote with instant runoff for presidential elections
    • Use multimember districts with single transferrable voting
    • Increase the size of the House of Representatives
    • Use the Webster apportionment method

    • Use independent districting commissions
    • Introduce more political quantitative literacy into school curricula

MakingDemocracyCount (last edited 2026-02-13 07:31:52 by KeithLofstrom)