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Voting Procedures Under Uncertainty
Hannu Nurmi
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Description for Voting Procedures Under Uncertainty
Hardback. This volume deals with how uncertainty can be dealt with in models of voting procedures. Using the 2001 American presidential elections as an example, it demonstrates the extremely large variation in voter opinions that would have resulted in the same observed outcome. Num Pages: 156 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 44 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
We live in an uncertain world, is a truism most of us hear more often than we would like. What one usually means to say by this is that we do not know what will happen in the future. Since changes, even major ones, have occurred in the past, it is possible that they will occur again in the future. In politics institutions are ways of coping with continuity and change. In democratic systems the electoral institutions provide ways of peaceful adjustment to changes in popular opinions. This book is about uncertainty as it pertains to electoral institutions. We shall ... Read more
We live in an uncertain world, is a truism most of us hear more often than we would like. What one usually means to say by this is that we do not know what will happen in the future. Since changes, even major ones, have occurred in the past, it is possible that they will occur again in the future. In politics institutions are ways of coping with continuity and change. In democratic systems the electoral institutions provide ways of peaceful adjustment to changes in popular opinions. This book is about uncertainty as it pertains to electoral institutions. We shall ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540433521
SKU
V9783540433521
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Reviews for Voting Procedures Under Uncertainty
From the reviews: "The main objective of Voting Procedures under Uncertainty is to clarify how uncertainty pertains to the performance of voting procedures. This significant task is successfully undertaken … . this book is a useful, refreshing and challenging reading for students and researchers of collective decision making." (S. Nitzan, Journal of Economics, Vol. 80 ... Read more