Compare and contrast the apportionment paradoxes. Which one of these do you find the most disturbing, and why? Which one of these do you find the least disturbing, and why?… See the whole entry
Compare and contrast the different apportionment plans. Which one do you think is best? Support your position with examples and facts.… See the whole entry
Compare and contrast the voting paradoxes. Which one do you find the most disturbing, and why? Which do you find the least disturbing, and why?… See the whole entry
Research how voting is conducted for the following events. Use the terminology of this chapter, not the terminology used in the original sources.
This site reviews apportionment paradoxes.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/Democracy.shtml… See the whole entry
This site gives apportionment data using the 2000 census.
https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-apportionment.html
You can find the reference to Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution (among many other interesting things) at this site:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html
Data from the first federal congress … See the whole entry
This site by the American Mathematical Society gives an excellent overview of voting and elections.
http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/voting-introduction.html
This site gives some references to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArrowsParadox.html
You can use this site to find real-life examples of voting dilemmas:
http://www.archives.gov/
This … See the whole entry
This interesting cite is attempting to build a case in favor of a wider use of approval voting.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/goodsoc.html… See the whole entry
This is one of the best all around sites that I have found. It is titled “The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history
This is an award-winning site that links to all sorts of mathematics information.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/History_overview
Marie Jean Antoine … See the whole entry
This is one of the best all around sites that I have found. It is titled “The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history
This is an award-winning site that links to all sorts of mathematics information.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/History_overview… See the whole entry