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Author Suzuki, Jeff.

Title Constitutional calculus : how mathematical logic can help America become a just society / by Jeff Suzuki.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Social justice -- United States.
Social justice.
United States.
Voting -- United States.
Voting.
Mathematical statistics -- United States.
Mathematical statistics.
Probabilities.
Probabilities.
Representative government and representation -- United States.
Representative government and representation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Suzuki, Jeff. Constitutional calculus : the math of justice and the myth of common sense. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2015 280 pages 9781421415956
ISBN 9781421415963 (electronic book)
1421415968 (electronic book)
9781421415956 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
142141595X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)