Bart: There are quite a few liberal arts math textbooks which include chapters on Arrow's Theorem and alternative voting methods, weighted voting and proportional representation. For example, the first 4 chapters, which make up the first section of Tannenbaum and Arnold's _Excursions in Modern Mathematics_, are on those topics.
Excursions in Modern Mathematics Fourth Edition by Peter Tannenbaum and Robert Arnold California State University, Fresno http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/tannenbaum/ This seems to be quite a popular textbook, and there are many similar ones. It is used for the math 102 course at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh, for instance, and some high schools use it too. Also, a case against the majority criterion was made by Jean-Charles de Borda in his original critique of the plurality vote, in his classic paper (contained in _Classics of social choice_, edited and translated by Iain McLean and Arnold B. Urken, 1995) SB --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Bart Ingles wrote: > [...] > The original justification of publically supported schools was that a > democracy requires citizens to be educated in civic and political matters. > But how many public schools teach the basic math of voting power, > proportional representation, etc.? > > > Forest ===== "Democracy"?: http://www1.umn.edu/irp/images/postcardAd2.jpg AR-NewsWI, a news service for Wisconsin animal advocates: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AR-NewsWI/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
