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Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them
Hannu Nurmi
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Hardback. How voting paradoxes are handled and how they should be handled is the focus of this book. It outlines, explains and classifies a number of paradoxes: Borda's and Condorcet's classic ones, several monotonicity and compound majority paradoxes, as well as some paradoxes of representation. Num Pages: 154 pages, 64 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHF; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 415.
Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Typically they suggest that something is wrong with the way in dividual opinions are being expressed or processed in voting. The outcomes are bizarre, unfair or otherwise implausible, given the expressed opinions of voters. Voting paradoxes have an important role in the history of social choice theory. The founding fathers of the theory, Marquis de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda, were keenly aware of some of them. Indeed, much of the work of these and other forerunners of the modern social choice theory dealt with ways of avoiding paradoxes related to voting. ... Read more
Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Typically they suggest that something is wrong with the way in dividual opinions are being expressed or processed in voting. The outcomes are bizarre, unfair or otherwise implausible, given the expressed opinions of voters. Voting paradoxes have an important role in the history of social choice theory. The founding fathers of the theory, Marquis de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda, were keenly aware of some of them. Indeed, much of the work of these and other forerunners of the modern social choice theory dealt with ways of avoiding paradoxes related to voting. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540662365
SKU
V9783540662365
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