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Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them /

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Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in elections. They pertain to such phenomena as additional support being detrimental for candidates and not voting leading to better outcomes than voting for some voters. No voting system is immune to all paradoxes and, therefore voting paradoxes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nurmi, Hannu
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999.
Subjects:
Economics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Basic Concepts and Tools
  • Paradoxes of the Enlightment Era
  • The Geometry of Voting
  • The Paradoxical Act of Voting
  • Monotonicity Paradoxes
  • Compound Majority Paradoxes
  • Intra-Profile Paradoxes
  • Paradoxes of Representation
  • Classification of Paradoxes
  • Hard and Soft Solutions.