Constitutional calculus : the math of justice and the myth of common sense /
Suzuki, Jeff.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Representative government and representation
Probabilities
Mathematical statistics
Voting
Social justice