Basic Geometry of Voting /

A surprise is how the complexities of voting theory can be explained and resolved with the comfortable geometry of our three-dimensional world. This book is directed toward students and others wishing to learn about voting, experts will discover previously unpublished results. As an example, a new p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Saari, Donald G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995.
Subjects:
Economics.
Operations research.
Économie politique.
Recherche opérationnelle.
economics.
Economics
Operations research
Mathematisches Modell
Wahlverhalten
Teoria dos jogos.
Sociologie électorale.
Géometrie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From an Election Fable to Election Procedures: An Electoral Fable
  • The Moral of the Tale
  • From Aristotle to "Fast Eddie"
  • What Kind of Geometry
  • Geometry for Positional and Pairwise Voting: Ranking Regions
  • Profiles and Election Mappings
  • The Problem With Condorcet: Why Can't an Organization Be More Like a Person?- Geometry of Pairwise Voting
  • Black's Single-Peakedness
  • Arrow's Theorem
  • Positional Voting and the BC: Positional Voting Methods
  • What a Difference a Procedure Makes; Several Different Outcomes
  • Positional Versus Pairwise Voting
  • Profile Decomposition
  • From Aggregating Pairwise Votes to the Borda Count
  • The Other Positional Voting Methods
  • Multiple Voting Schemes
  • Other Election Procedures
  • Other Voting Issues: Weak Consistency: The Sum of the Parts
  • From Involvement and Monotonicity to Manipulation
  • Gibbard-Satterthwaite and Manipulable Procedures
  • Proportional Representation
  • House Monotone Methods.

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