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Steven Brams
Professor of Politics, New York University
Steven Brams is a Professor of Politics at New York University. He graduated in 1962 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Northwestern. His primary research interests include game theory and its applications, particularly in political science and international relations, and social choice theory, particularly as applied to voting and elections. He is one of the independent discoverers of approval voting and a co-discoverer of the first envy-free solution to the n-person cake cutting problem. Brams was a Guggenheim Fellow from 1986 to 1987 and is a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science.
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Steven Brams’ solution to math’s “cake-cutting problem” can be applied to everything from divorce settlements to land disputes in the Middle East. But does he use it on his own […]
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It’s an anachronism, says the NYU Politics Professor—and the state-by-state “winner take all” rules for presidential elections are even worse.
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If the U.S. wants to develop a more rational, representative electoral system, it might look to Germany.
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One of the originators of “approval voting” explains how his model would prevent the kind of foregone-conclusion elections that discourage voters from participating.
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The theoretical models Steven Brams constructs could help you make better strategic decisions at the polls.
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The “Biblical Games” author and game theorist demonstrates how biblical characters are “by and large rational, God included.”
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A conversation with the game theorist and Professor of Politics at New York University.