Voting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate
Proving Their (In)Vulnerability to Various Voting Paradoxes
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Beschreibung
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. 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.
Provides an overview of 18 voting procedures for elections resulting in the choice of a single winner Describes the most common voting paradoxes Illustrates by way of examples the vulnerability of some voting procedures to some paradoxes and explains in detail why some procedures are immune to some paradoxes Serves as a companion to the 2017 publication by Felsenthal and Nurmi, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate
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Dan S. Felsenthal
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