Voting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate

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Voting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate

Proving Their (In)Vulnerability to Various Voting Paradoxes

Political science and theory Elections and referenda / suffrage Economic theory and philosophy Welfare economics Social and political philosophy

Authors: Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi

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Collection: SpringerBriefs in Economics

Language: English

Published by: Springer

Published on: 19 January 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 772 Kb

ISBN: 9783319740331


Overview

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid paradoxical outcomes.

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Together with a companion volume by the same authors, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate, published by Springer in 2017, this book aims at giving a comprehensive overview of the most important advantages and disadvantages of procedures thereby assisting decision makers in the choice of a voting procedure that would best suit their purposes.

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