The scientific monograph of a survey kind presented to the reader's attention deals with fundamental ideas and basic schemes of optimization methods that can be effectively used for solving strategic planning and operations manage- ment problems related, in particular, to transportation. This monograph is an English translation of a considerable part of the author's book with a similar title that was published in Russian in 1992. The material of the monograph embraces methods of linear and nonlinear programming; nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization; integer programming, solving problems on...
The scientific monograph of a survey kind presented to the reader's attention deals with fundamental ideas and basic schemes of optimization methods t...
How America Chooses Its Presidents addresses in a simple manner the whole spectrum of issues relating to the Electoral College from the perspective of its logical foundations. This is the first book to question the applicability of the Presidential Succession Act, a Federal Statute, in certain extreme but possible situations. The book argues that the act may not protect the country from election stalemates.
Today, 50 states and DC rather than a college of electors award electoral votes in presidential elections. This appears to violate the one state, one vote principle, the constitutional...
How America Chooses Its Presidents addresses in a simple manner the whole spectrum of issues relating to the Electoral College from the perspective of...
This is the first book in Russian that describes the system of electing a U. S. President. Look at the following statements concerning U.S. Presidential elections: 1. The system of electing a U.S. President (the election system) was never designed to service the popular will. 2. The currently existing election system does not follow some major ideas of the Founding Fathers. 3. Certain election rules are such that if they were to be applied, an intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court in the election being in progress would be almost inevitable. 4. Amendment 12 of the U.S. Constitution contains...
This is the first book in Russian that describes the system of electing a U. S. President. Look at the following statements concerning U.S. Presidenti...
This is the first book on the U.S. presidential election system to analyze the basic principles underlying the design of the existing system and those at the heart of competing proposals for improving the system. The book discusses how the use of some election rules embedded in the U.S. Constitution and in the Presidential Succession Act may cause skewed or weird election outcomes and election stalemates. The book argues that the act may not cover some rare though possible situations which the Twentieth Amendment authorizes Congress to address. Also, the book questions the constitutionality...
This is the first book on the U.S. presidential election system to analyze the basic principles underlying the design of the existing system and those...
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This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet addressed in other publications. It argues that any rules for electing a President that may have a chance to replace the current ones should provide an equal representation of states as equal members of the Union, and of the nation as a whole. This book analyzes the National Popular Vote plan and shows that this plan may violate the Supreme Court decisions on the equality of votes cast in statewide popular elections held to choose state...
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet...
