"Satisfaction Approval Voting" presents an innovative electoral system designed to improve voter satisfaction and representational outcomes. This book explores how Satisfaction Approval Voting (SAV) integrates approval voting principles with enhancements that optimize democratic processes. 1-Satisfaction Approval Voting-An introduction to SAV and its revolutionary approach to electoral satisfaction. 2-Approval Voting-A look at approval voting, allowing voters to support multiple candidates for fairness. 3-Proportional Representation-Explores proportional representation’s role in achieving equitable outcomes. 4-Score Voting-Discusses score voting, a system where voters assign scores to candidates. 5-Two-round System-Analyzes how the two-round system ensures broad candidate support. 6-Single Transferable Vote-Unpacks the single transferable vote system for proportional outcomes. 7-Strategic Voting-Covers strategic voting and its influence on electoral results. 8-Voting-Provides a comprehensive overview of voting principles and systems. 9-Electoral System-Analyzes the impact of different electoral systems on democracy. 10-Cardinal Voting-Explores how cardinal voting rates candidates, highlighting its strengths. 11-Multiple Non-Transferable Vote-Examines this system's role in specific electoral contexts. 12-Ranked Voting-Discusses ranked voting and its preference-based candidate ranking. 13-Proportional Approval Voting-Explores how this method combines approval voting with proportionality. 14-Sequential Proportional Approval Voting-Looks at a sequential approach to improve proportional outcomes. 15-Combined Approval Voting-Analyzes how this method integrates multiple voting systems. 16-STAR Voting-A breakdown of STAR (Score Then Automatic Runoff) voting and its benefits. 17-Social Utility Efficiency-Explores how voting systems can optimize social utility. 18-Justified Representation-Focuses on achieving fair representation in electoral processes. 19-Multiwinner Approval Voting-Covers how multiwinner approval voting represents diverse interests. 20-Multiwinner Voting-Discusses various multiwinner systems for balanced representation. 21-Multi-Issue Voting-Explores multi-issue voting for elections involving multiple topics. "Satisfaction Approval Voting" is more than a book—it's a valuable resource for anyone interested in democratic reform. Whether you're a professional, student, or enthusiast, this book offers powerful insights into how SAV can transform voting and representation. Dive in to explore the future of electoral reform.

With approval voting, voters can approve of as many candidates as they want, and the one approved by the most voters wins. This book surveys a wide variety of empirical and theoretical knowledge accumulated from years of studying this method of voting.

This book presents a new democratic theory of election reform, using the tradition of political realism to interrogate and synthesize findings from global elections research and voting theory. In a world of democratic deficits and uncivil societies, political researchers and reformers should prioritize creating smarter ballots before smarter voters. Many democracies’ electoral systems impose a dilemma of disempowerment which traps voters between the twin dangers of vote-splitting and “lesser evil” choices, restricting individual expression while degrading systemic accountability. The application of innovative conceptual tools to comparative empirical analysis and previous experimental results reveals that ballot structure is crucial, but often overlooked, in sustaining this dilemma. Multi-mark ballot structures can resolve the dilemma of disempowerment by allowing voters to rank or grade multiple parties or candidates per contest, thereby furnishing democratic citizens with a broader array of options, finer tools of expression, and stronger powers of accountability. Innovative proposals for ranking and grading ballots in both multi-winner and single-winner contests, including referendums, are offered to provoke further experimentation and reform—a process that may help the cause of democratic elections’ relevance and survival.

Pundits have observed that if so many incumbents are returned to Congress to each election by such wide margins, perhaps we should look for ways to increase competitiveness – a centerpiece to the American way of life – through redistricting. Do competitive elections increase voter satisfaction? How does voting for a losing candidate affect voters’ attitudes toward government? The not-so-surprising conclusion is that losing voters are less satisfied with Congress and their Representative, but the implications for the way in which we draw congressional and state legislative districts are less straightforward. Redistricting and Representation argues that competition in general elections is not the sine qua non of healthy democracy, and that it in fact contributes to the low levels of approval of Congress and its members. Brunell makes the case for a radical departure from traditional approaches to redistricting – arguing that we need to "pack" districts with as many like-minded partisans as possible, maximizing the number of winning voters, not losers.

Computational social choice is concerned with the design and analysis of methods for collective decision making. It is a research area that is located at the interface of computer science and economics. The central question studied in computational social choice is that of how best to aggregate the individual points of view of several agents, so as to arrive at a reasonable compromise. Examples include tallying the votes cast in an election, aggregating the professional opinions of several experts, and finding a fair manner of dividing a set of resources amongst the members of a group -- Back cover.

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies well-known procedures and/or apportionment methods either from a technical or historical point of view.

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