Electoral Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Representative Electoral Systems Underlying Assumptions and Decision Rules

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Underlying Assumptions of Electoral Systems

      • Moshé Machover

      Pages 3-9

   3. Some Informal Remarks on Devising a “Fair” Decision-Making Rule for Representative Assemblies

      • Dan S. Felsenthal

      Pages 11-15

3. Paradoxes Afflicting Electoral Procedures and Their Expected Probability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Review of Paradoxes Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate

      • Dan S. Felsenthal

      Pages 19-91

   3. Election Inversions by the U.S. Electoral College

      • Nicholas R. Miller

      Pages 93-127

   4. Which Voting Rule Minimizes the Probability of the Referendum Paradox? Lessons from French Data

      • Rahhal Lahrach, Vincent Merlin

      Pages 129-150

   5. A Gentle Combination of Plurality Vote and Proportional Representation for Bundestag Elections

      • Olga Birkmeier, Kai-Friederike Oelbermann, Friedrich Pukelsheim, Matthias Rossi

      Pages 151-171

   6. The Value of Research Based on Simple Assumptions about Voters’ Preferences

      • William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley

      Pages 173-199

   7. The Impact of Group Coherence on the Condorcet Ranking Efficiency of Voting Rules

      • William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley

      Pages 201-216

   8. Modeling the Outcomes of Vote-Casting in Actual Elections

      • T. Nicolaus Tideman, Florenz Plassmann

      Pages 217-251

4. Theory and Practice: Additional Considerations in Selecting a Voting Procedure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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5. Theory and Practice – Additional Considerations in Selecting a Voting Procedure

   1. On the Relevance of Theoretical Results to Voting System Choice

      • Hannu Nurmi

      Pages 255-274

   2. Putting Paradoxes into Perspective: in Defence of the Alternative Vote

      • Ken Ritchie, Alessandro Gardini

      Pages 275-303

   3. Approval Balloting for Fixed-Size Committees

      • D. Marc Kilgour, Erica Marshall

      Pages 305-326

   4. And the Loser Is… Plurality Voting

      • Jean-François Laslier

      Pages 327-351

Both theoretical and empirical aspects of single- and multi-winner voting procedures are presented in this collection of papers. Starting from a discussion of the underlying principles of democratic representation, the volume includes a description of a great variety of voting procedures. It lists and illustrates their susceptibility to the main voting paradoxes, assesses (under various models of voters' preferences) the probability of paradoxical outcomes, and discusses the relevance of the theoretical results to the choice of voting system.

• Electoral Systems
• Voting
• Voting Paradox
• Voting Procedure
• Voting Systems

• , School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  Dan S. Felsenthal

• , Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

  Moshé Machover

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