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  • Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence

    The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules

    by William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a small number of candidates if voters’ preferences on candidates reflect any significant degree of a number of different measures of mutual coherence. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters’ preferences become more mutually coherent. Similar ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Elections, Voting Rules and Paradoxical Outcomes

    by William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This monograph studies voting procedures based on the probability that paradoxical outcomes like the famous Condorcet Paradox might exist. It is well known that hypothetical examples of many different paradoxical election outcomes can be developed, but this analysis examines factors that are related to the process by which voters form their preferences on candidates that will significantly reduce ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Combat Modeling

    by Moshe Kress, Alan Washburn ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    "Combat Modeling" is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative analysis of combat. After a brief overview, authors Washburn and Kress present individual chapters on shooting without feedback; shooting with feedback; target defense; attrition models; game theory and wargames; search; unmanned aerial vehicles; and terror and insurgency. Three appendices provide a review ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Groundbreakers

    How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

    by Elizabeth McKenna, Hahrie Han ...
    Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. What is missing from most accounts of the campaign is an ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Essentials of Risk Theory

    Edited by Sabine Roeser, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson, Rafaela Hillerbrand ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. The topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Collaborative Governance

    Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times

    by John D. Donahue, Richard J. Zeckhauser ...
    How government can forge dynamic public-private partnershipsAll too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. Collaborative ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winning at Litigation through Decision Analysis

    Creating and Executing Winning Strategies in any Litigation or Dispute

    by John Celona ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies. With explanations that progress from introductory to advanced and practice problems at the end of each chapter, this is a book the reader will want to use and refer to for years to come. Practicing decision analysts, operations research and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • e-Democracy

    A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective

    Edited by David Rios Insua, Simon French ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts. Thus, there is a growing interest in areas of e-government and, more recently, e-democracy. However, most attempts in this field have just envisioned standard political approaches facilitated by technology, like e-voting or e-debating. Alternatively, we could devise a more ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Managing Performance in the Public Sector

    by Hans de Bruijn ...
    Topical and taking a bold stance in the contentious debate surrounding performance in the public sector, this new edition shows readers how performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public organizations.Thoroughly revised and updated, this highly successful text, written by an experienced academic and practitioner is packed full with a wealth of new features. These include ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Estimating Impact

    A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects in International Interventions

    Edited by Alexander Kott, Gary Citrenbaum ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Sociological theories of crime include: theories of strain blame crime on personal stressors; theories of social learning blame crime on its social rewards, and see crime more as an institution in conflict with other institutions rather than as in- vidual deviance; and theories of control look at crime as natural and rewarding, and explore the formation of institutions that control crime. ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems

    In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma

    Edited by Daniel Hernández-Hernández, J. Adolfo Minjárez-Sosa ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments. These topics include various aspects of dynamic programming, approximation algorithms, and infinite-dimensional linear programming. In all, the work comprises 18 ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD