Constitutional calculus : how mathematical logic can help America become a just society /
Subtitle on cover: Math of Justice and the Myth of Common Sense
by Jeff Suzuki.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781421415963
Social justice--United States. Voting--United States. Mathematical statistics--United States. Probabilities. Representative government and representation--United States.