Prologue: The wizard and the lizard -- pt. 1. The problem. -- 1. Game theory -- Kurt Gödel -- Adolf Hitler -- Albert Einstein -- Oskar Morgenstern -- Bambi -- The U.S. Constitution -- Joseph Goebbels -- God -- Kaiser Wilhelm II -- John von Neumann -- Kenneth Arrow -- Marxism -- Alfred Tarski -- Intransitivity -- Harold Hotelling -- Ice cream -- John Hicks -- "Scissors, paper, stone" -- Duncan Black -- The "forty-seven-year old wife of a machinist living in Dayton, Ohio" -- The RAND Corporation -- Condoleezza Rice -- Olaf Helmer -- Harry Truman -- Joseph Stalin -- Abram Bergson -- 2. The big bang -- Michelle Kwan -- The great flip-flop -- Republicans -- Democrats -- Communists -- Sidney Morgenbesser -- Irrelevant alternatives -- Michelangelo -- Joe McCarthy -- Winston Churchill -- Woodrow Wilson -- Boss Tweed -- Amartya Sen -- 3. A short history of vote splitting -- Spoilers -- The electoral college -- James Polk -- Henry Clay -- James Birney -- Cholera -- Zachary Taylor -- Martin Van Buren -- Lewis Cass -- Abraham Lincoln -- Stephen Douglas -- John Breckinridge -- John Bell -- James Blaine -- Moral values -- Temperate Republican women -- Grover Cleveland -- John St. John -- Benjamin Harrison -- James Weaver -- J.P. Morgan -- Henry Clay Frick -- Teddy Roosevelt -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson -- Eugene Debs -- Socialism -- Wall Street -- Ross Perot -- Larry King -- Nude photos -- George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton -- Bob Dole -- POWs -- Vietnamese -- Black Panthers -- Ed Rollins -- FDR -- Harry Levine -- Ralph Nader -- Hiroshima -- Al Gore -- Lewis Carroll -- Tweedledee -- Tweedledum -- George W. Bush -- Michael Moore -- John McCain -- Karl Rove -- Mother Teresa -- Universal negatives -- Tarek Milleron -- Cadillac tail fins -- George McGovern -- Gore Vidal -- Ronald Reagan -- The fifty-five-mile-an-hour speed limit -- Mother Jones -- James Carville -- "That bastard" -- The devil -- Pat Buchanan -- Harry Browne -- Harry Reid -- Defective consumer products -- 4. The most evil man in America -- Marcus Hanna -- William McKinley -- Yiddish -- JFK -- Richard Nixon -- Joseph Napolitan -- Lee Atwater -- Cannibalism -- Ladies' corsets -- Martin Van Buren -- The Ten Commandments -- Syphilis -- Slavery -- Mother murder -- Lyndon Johnson -- Farm animals -- Television -- Rush Limbaugh -- Arthur Finkelstein -- The $12 man -- Jesus -- Jews -- Push-polling -- Electroshock -- NAACP -- George W. Bush -- Jeb Bush -- Michael Dukakis -- Babe Ruth -- Willie Horton -- Al Gore -- Susan Estrich -- Mario Cuomo -- Heroin dealers -- Jennifer Fitzgerald -- Lithesome Republican women -- David Duke -- Death -- Apologies -- Peace -- Love -- Brotherhood -- The extra-chromosome crowd -- Thinking outside the box -- 5. Run, Ralph, run! -- Karl Rove -- The "red special" -- Samuel Gompers -- Greens -- The Texas "six-pack" -- Arno political consultants -- Wal-Mart -- JSM -- Sproul and Associates -- The Las Vegas FBI office -- The Oregon Family Council -- Ayn Rand -- Lie detectors -- Captain America -- The "Ten Commandments judge" -- The National Guard -- Harold See -- Black holes -- Three men and a horse -- Barbra Streisand -- Bob Shrum -- 6. Year of the spoiler -- Randy "Duke" Cunningham -- Brian Bilbray -- Francine Busby -- Tijuana sewage -- William Griffith -- Mysterious phone calls -- Feminazi educrats -- Tim Kaine -- Jerry Kilgore -- Rick Santorum -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Bob Casey Jr. -- A Republican in a duck suit -- Carl Romanelli -- Antimatter -- Eye gouging -- Nonviolence -- Insane Democrats -- Randy Graf -- "Gabby" Giffords -- Ken Mehlman -- Idiots -- Rick Perry -- Chris Bell -- Carole Strayhorn -- Kinky Friedman -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 -- Trail lawyers -- Ted Kulongoski -- Ron Saxton -- Mary Starrett -- Tweedledee, Tweedledum -- Pennies from heaven.
pt. 2. The solution. -- 7. Trouble in Kiribati -- Benjamin Franklin -- The Marquis de Condorcet -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- Louis XVI -- Marie Antoinette -- Robespierre -- Omelets -- Irony -- Jean-Charles de Borda -- The metric system -- Brokeback Mountain -- The most repulsive book ever written in the French language -- The Marquis de Laplace -- "Honest men" -- Corrupt sportswriters -- Arrogant pushy scientists -- Catalonian mysticism -- Sinners and infidels -- The most perfect voting method -- Kiribati -- James Madison -- Napoléon Bonaparte -- 8. The new Belfry -- Charles Dodgson -- Thrift -- Stuttering -- Henry George Liddell -- Bad architecture -- Blogging -- Committee voting -- Extraordinary injustice -- Uncut pages -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Barking up the wrong Tumtum tree -- Unanswered prayers -- Paradoxes -- Dodos -- A trick picture -- 9. Instant runoff -- Edward Gorey -- The Good Samaritan -- William Robert Ware -- Sermons -- MIT -- John Stuart Mill -- The moral condition of the working classes -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- Proportional representation -- Thomas Hare -- Carl George Andrae -- Lord Salisbury -- H.G. Wells -- Instant-runoff voting -- One-stop shopping -- The winner-turns-loser paradox -- 10. Who's afraid of the big bad cycle? -- Robert Todd Lincoln -- The executive branch's Angel of Death -- Pullman porters -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- James Garfield -- Tammany Hall -- "The most un-American, most diabolical system ever devised" -- Mussolini -- Duverger's law -- Ilona Staller's left breast -- Bimini -- Dodgson's rule -- Dick Morris -- Bob Dole -- Newt Gingrich -- Jerry Falwell -- Lucifer -- William H. Riker -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Harry Truman -- Republican flip-floppers -- The Joseph McCarthy of Condorcet cycles -- Liberalism -- Wilmot proviso -- The Journal of Theoretical Politics -- Scott L. Feld -- Bernard Grofman -- Allan Gibbard -- Mark Satterthwaite -- Amartya Sen -- Con games -- 11. Buckley and the clones -- Steven Brams -- George Boehm -- George and Ira Gershwin -- Negative voting -- Robert J. Weber -- Nelson Rockefeller -- Charles Goodell -- William F. Buckley, Jr. -- James Buckley -- Richard Ottinger -- Clones -- Dummies -- Spiro Agnew -- Richard Nixon -- Ithaca -- Game theory -- Approval voting -- John Kellett -- Kenneth Mott -- Richard A. Morin -- Guy Ottewell -- Good guys -- Bad guys -- Nobel prizes -- The Serene Republic of Venice -- Popes -- The Soviet Union -- The United Nations -- Good Morning America -- The most dangerous system ever invented -- 12. Bad Santa -- Donald Saari -- Kris Kringle -- The n-body problem -- Rigged elections -- Peter Fishburn -- Samuel Merrill III -- Jill Van Newenhizen -- Indeterminacy -- Rebuttals and counter-rebuttals -- Unsophisticated voter system -- Unmitigated evil -- Symmetry -- Polyhedra -- Behavioral assumptions I find to be very dangerous -- Mr. Mediocre -- Thomas Edison -- Electrocuted dogs -- "President Perot" -- Alexander Tabarrok -- "Buddy" Roemer -- How to buy kitchen cabinets -- "Wherever you go, there you are" -- Polls -- Chameleon on a mirror -- Bandwagon effect -- Jesse Ventura -- Roger B. Myerson -- John Nash -- Self-interest -- Bullet voting -- Terry Sanford -- Air bags -- Burr's dilemma -- 13. Last man standing -- Orange County -- John Wayne -- American machismo -- The Condorcet winner -- Linux -- Markus Schulze -- CSSD -- Wikipedia -- Trolls -- Queen Elizabeth -- Kim Jong Il -- Sarcasm -- Simplicity -- Ka-Ping Yee -- Microsoft Windows -- Manipulative behavior -- How to prevent carjacking -- Mathematics Awareness Week -- Iain McLean -- Permanent pointlessness -- 14. Hot or not? -- Hanging out -- James Hong -- Jim Young -- Gene survival -- Speed dating -- Silicon Valley -- Slashdot -- Playboy -- Michelin ratings -- Range voting -- The Internet movie database -- The Seventh Seal -- Jennifer Aniston -- Cheating -- Warren D. Smith -- Bayesian regret -- Ignorance -- Honesty -- Guilt -- Quasi-spiritual ac ts -- Honeybees -- Jan Kok -- Number phobia -- Pop culture -- 15. Present but not voting -- This is Spinal Tap -- Jeremy Bentham -- Faulty embalming -- Lionel Robbins -- eBay -- Claude Hillinger -- Socialism -- John Harsanyi -- Fiddling while Rome burns -- What the impossibility theorem really means.
pt. 3. Reality. -- 16. The way democracy will be -- Unhappiness -- The Center for Voting and Democracy -- Rob Richie -- George Hallett -- Cynthia Terrell -- Cincinnati -- John Anderson -- Lani Guinier -- Cumulative voting -- David Gergen -- George Soros -- The Muppets -- Alienation -- Howard Dean -- Barack Obama -- USA Today -- The Sierra Club -- Spirochetes -- Penicillin -- Jesse Jackson, Jr. -- The Prius of voting systems -- Heretics -- Zealots -- A one-word answer no one understands -- Regret in Peru -- A car with Kennedy and Nixon bumper stickers -- Minimal coalitions -- Third parties -- Nursery effect -- Moderates -- The universal political fantasy -- A mission from God -- 17. Blue man coup -- Karma -- George Allen -- YouTube -- Glenda Parker's vacation money -- The Blue Man from Bozeman -- Y2K -- The Heimlich maneuver -- Smurfs -- Little microchips inserted in our brains -- Conspiracy theories.
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