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Majority Judgment

Measuring, Ranking, and Electing

By: Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki

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Majority Judgment

Measuring, Ranking, and Electing

By: Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki

An account of a new theory and method of voting, judging and ranking, majority judgment, shown to be superior to all other known methods. In Majority Judgment, Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki argue that the traditional theory of social choice offers no acceptable solution to the problems of how to elect, to judge, or to rank. They find that the traditional model—transforming the "preference lists" of individuals into a "preference list" of society—is fundamentally flawed in both theory and practice. Balinski and Laraki propose a more realistic model. It leads to an entirely new theory and method—majority judgment—proven superior to all known methods. It is at once meaningful, resists strategic manipulation, elicits honesty, and is not subject to the classical paradoxes encountered in practice, notably Condorcet's and Arrow's. They offer theoretical, practical, and experimental evidence—from national elections to figure skating competitions—to support their arguments. Drawing on insights from wine, sports, music, and other competitions, Balinski and Laraki argue that the question should not be how to transform many individual rankings into a single collective ranking, but rather, after defining a common language of grades to measure merit, how to transform the many individual evaluations of each competitor into a single collective evaluation of all competitors. The crux of the matter is a new model in which the traditional paradigm—to compare—is replaced by a new paradigm—to evaluate.

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431

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MIT Press

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0262545713

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9780262545716

Fair Representation

Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote

By: Michel L. Balinski,H. Peyton Young

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Fair Representation

Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote

By: Michel L. Balinski,H. Peyton Young

The issue of fair representation will take center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned based on the 2000 Census. Using U.S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for translating state populations—or vote totals of parties—into a fair allocation of congressional seats. They conclude that the current apportionment formula cheats the larger states in favor of the smaller, contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers and compromising the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" rulings. Balinski and Young interweave the theoretical development with a rich historical account of controversies over representation, and show how many of these principles grew out of political contests in the course of United States history. The result is a work that is at once history, politics, and popular science. The book—updated with data from the 1980 and 1990 Census counts—vividly demonstrates that apportionment deals with the very substance of political power.

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214

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815716346

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9780815716341

Liberalism and Hegemony

Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution

By: Jean-Francois Constant,Michel Ducharme

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Liberalism and Hegemony

Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution

By: Jean-Francois Constant,Michel Ducharme

In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History." Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic, and well-argued article had an immediate impact on the field. Proposing that Canadian history should be mapped through a process of reconnaisance, and that the Canadian state should be understood as a project of liberal rule in North America, the essay prompted debate immediately upon publication. Liberalism and Hegemony assembles some of Canada's finest historians to continue the debate sparked by McKay's essay. The essays collected here explore the possibilities and limits presented by "The Liberal Order Framework" for various segments of Canadian history, and within them, the paramount influence of liberalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is debated in the context of aboriginal history, environmental history, the history of the family, the development of political thought and ideas, and municipal governance. Like McKay's "The Liberal Order Framework," which is included in this volume with a response to recent criticism, Liberalism and Hegemony is a fascinating foray into current historical thought and provides the historical community with a book that will act both as a reference and a guide for future research.

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489

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University of Toronto Press

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1442693061

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9781442693067

Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorics

By: Michel Rigo

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Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorics

By: Michel Rigo

Advanced Graph Theory focuses on some of the main notions arising in graph theory with an emphasis from the very start of the book on the possible applications of the theory and the fruitful links existing with linear algebra. The second part of the book covers basic material related to linear recurrence relations with application to counting and the asymptotic estimate of the rate of growth of a sequence satisfying a recurrence relation.

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237

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119058643

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9781119058649

Aggregation Functions

By: Michel Grabisch

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Aggregation Functions

By: Michel Grabisch

A rigorous and self-contained exposition of aggregation functions and their properties.

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481

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Cambridge University Press

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0521519268

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9780521519267

Behavioral Social Choice

Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications

By: Michel Regenwetter

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Behavioral Social Choice

Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications

By: Michel Regenwetter

Behavioral Social Choice looks at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making rules. The authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice processes, and seek to restore faith in the possibility of democratic decision-making. In particular, they argue that worries about the supposed prevalence of majority rule cycles that would preclude groups from reaching a final decision about what alternative they prefer have been greatly overstated. In practice, majority rule can be expected to work well in most real-world settings. They provide new insights into how alternative model specifications can change our estimates of social orderings.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521536669

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Fair Representation

Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote

By: Michel L. Balinski,H. Peyton Young

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Fair Representation

Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote

By: Michel L. Balinski,H. Peyton Young

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815716346

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The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

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The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing. It is a masterpiece from one of the world’s most innovative writers.

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354

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Vintage

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0307275213

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Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

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Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

Een twaalfjarige jongen klimt in de bergen in een elektriciteitsmast, helemaal tot op het platform. De gapende leegte onder zijn voeten oefent een vreemde aantrekkingskracht op hem uit: zal hij springen? Dertig jaar later moet hij terugdenken aan dat ene moment. Hij heeft de liefde van zijn leven gevonden en zijn eigen economische waarde opgeschroefd door een nieuwe vorm van toerisme te lanceren, maar hoe stabiel is geluk? Met Platform houdt Michel Houellebecq de moderne westerse samenleving opnieuw een spiegel voor, waarin enkele minder aangename details van onze wereld van markt en strijd worden uitvergroot en vervormd. Michel Houellebecq (1958) is het even verguisde als bewierookte paradepaard van de Franse letteren. Vooral met zijn grote romans en de daarin verwoorde (vaak tegenstrijdige) opvattingen verwierf hij mondiale literaire bekendheid. Sinds 1998 leeft hij in zelfverkozen ballingschap in Ierland.

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265

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Singel Uitgeverijen

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9029587237

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9789029587235

Annihilation

By: Michel Houellebecq

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Annihilation

By: Michel Houellebecq

‘The most interesting novelist of our times’ Evening Standard ‘The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades’ The Sunday Times ‘We have no one to match Houellebecq.’ The Daily Telegraph It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer scientists at the DGSI – the French counter-terrorism agency – scrambling for answers. An advisor to the country’s Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father Édouard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When Édouard has a stroke, his children have an opportunity to repair their strained relationships, as they determine to free their father from the medical centre where he is wasting away. Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation reveals new sides to his writing, adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage, disgust and irony that have powered both him and his earlier works to international fame. Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside Annihilation was a #1 Livres Hebdo bestseller in France w/c 10/01/2022, and a #1 Spiegel bestseller in Germany w/c 24/01/2022

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Picador

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1761564153

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9781761564154

Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

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Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin. When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age. 'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard

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Random House

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1473570581

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9781473570580

Zébrage

By: Michel Leiris

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Zébrage

By: Michel Leiris

Mus peut-être par l'angoisse inhérente à l'idée de la mort, angoisse qui leur serait propre selon l'opinion commune qui veut que l'espèce humaine soit la seule dont les membres sachent qu'un jour ils ne vivront plus, les gens de toutes races se sont dotés d'institutions et d'usages qui, même si ce n'est pas là le but expressément visé, leur fournissent des moyens de cesser, du moins pour un temps et de manière tout imaginaire, d'être l'homme ou la femme qu'on est dans l'existence quotidienne, pratiques fort diverses qui (sans préjudice de motivations plus directement utilitaires) sont pour l'individu des occasions concrètes d'échapper dans une certaine mesure à sa condition, comme s'il lui fallait d'une façon ou d'une autre effacer des limites qui sont par définition celles d'un être périssable et doué de pouvoirs précaires.

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Gallimard Education

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2070327124

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9782070327126

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Majority Judgment

Majority Judgment

Fair Representation

Fair Representation

Liberalism and Hegemony

Liberalism and Hegemony

Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorics

Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorics

Aggregation Functions

Aggregation Functions

Behavioral Social Choice

Behavioral Social Choice

Fair Representation

Fair Representation

The Possibility of an Island

The Possibility of an Island

Platform

Platform

Annihilation

Annihilation

Serotonin

Serotonin

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