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Gehrlein, William V. (University Of Delaware); Lepelley, Dominique - Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence - 9783642031069 - V9783642031069
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Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence

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Description for Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence Hardback. This book argues that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters' preferences become more mutually coherent. It also focuses on the Condorcet Criterion, which states that pairwise majority rule winner should be chosen as the election winner. Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KCA; KCH; KFFD; PBUD; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.

The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a small number of candidates if voters’ preferences on candidates reflect any significant degree of a number of different measures of mutual coherence. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters’ preferences become more mutually coherent. Similar analysis is used here to indicate that this notion is valid for most, but not all, other voting paradoxes. This study also focuses on the Condorcet Criterion, which states that the pairwise majority rule winner should be chosen as the election ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
397
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Choice and Welfare
Number of Pages
385
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642031069
SKU
V9783642031069
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

Reviews for Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence
From the reviews: “This book bridges the gap between the theoretical literature showing the possibility of counterintuitive results and the empirical findings of many experiments in which these counterintuitive results hardly or not at all appear. This is a very well written book, extremely rich in information, integrating many existing and new results and with an impressive number of ... Read more

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