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Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications

Product ID: 99386
Supplementary Print
Undergraduate
High School

An Application of Voting Theory to Congress (UMAP)

Author: James M. Enelow


The purpose of this module is to allow students to gain an understanding of how a simple theory of voting can be used to analyze strategic voting in Congress.

Table of Contents:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. AN EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY OF SOPHISTICATED VOTING

3. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT TO THE 1966 CIVIL RIGHTS BILL

4. THE SALT II TREATY

5. CONCLUSION

6. ANSWERS TO EXERCISES

©1980 by COMAP, Inc.
UMAP Module
22 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Discrete & Finite Mathematics

Application Areas:

Social Studies , Voting Theory

Prerequisites:

High school algebra; elementary probability theory; elementary utility theory; ability to understand tree diagrams

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