A Mathematical Analysis of an Election System Proposed by Gottlob Frege.

In 1998 a long-lost proposal for an election law by Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was rediscovered in the Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek in Jena, Germany. The method that Frege proposed for the election of representatives of a constituency features a remarkable concern for the representati...

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Publicado en:Erkenntnis Vol. 87; no. 6; pp. 2609 - 2645
Autores principales: Harrenstein, Paul, Lackner, Marie-Louise, Lackner, Martin
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2022
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          Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, 15 Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, UK
          Herford College, University of Oxford, Catte Street, Oxford, UK
          Christian Doppler Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Optimization for Planning and Scheduling, TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9-11, Vienna, Austria
          Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9-11, Vienna, Austria
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        Political attitudes
        Election law
        Mathematical analysis
        Voting
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        Apportionment
        Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)
        Proportional representation
        Proportionality
        Representative democracy
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