Constitutional calculus : the math of justice and the myth of common sense / Jeff Suzuki.

Author/creator Suzuki, Jeff author.
Format Book
PublicationBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Description280 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Prologue: condorcet's dream -- The articles of the constitution -- Stand up and be estimated -- (Nearly) equal representation -- Weighting for a fair vote -- The impossibility of democracy -- Dragons and dummymanders -- The worst way to elect a president, except for all the rest -- The Bill of Rights -- Stop and frisk : the inefficiency of racism -- Reverend thomas bayes and the law -- "The man of statistics" -- Despair over disparity -- Once is an accident -- 6 5 10 n-angry men -- The peril and promise of social network analysis -- Strikes for three strikes -- The price of punishment -- Epilogue: the constitutional equation -- Notes -- Selected topical bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014014600
ISBN9781421415956 hardcover alk. paper
ISBNelectronic
ISBN142141595X hardcover alk. paper
ISBNelectronic

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Joyner General Stacks JK1726 .S89 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold