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Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them

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Authors:
  1. Hannu Nurmi

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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  • classification of numerous voting paradoxes * includes suggestions for practical voting system design

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-3

  3. Basic Concepts and Tools

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    Pages 4-10

  4. Paradoxes of the Enlightenment Era

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    Pages 11-30

  5. The Geometry of Voting

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    Pages 31-40

  6. The Paradoxical Act of Voting

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    Pages 41-54

  7. Monotonicity Paradoxes

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    Pages 55-69

  8. Compound Majority Paradoxes

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    Pages 70-86

  9. Intra-Profile Paradoxes

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    Pages 87-108

  10. Paradoxes of Representation

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    Pages 109-119

  11. Classification of Paradoxes

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    Pages 120-124

  12. Hard and Soft Solutions

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    Pages 125-127

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 129-153
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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. One of the early paradoxes, viz. that bearing the name of Condorcet, has subsequently gained such a prominent place in the literature that it is sometimes called the paradox of voting. One of the aims of the present work is to show that Condorcet's is but one of many paradoxes of voting. Some of these are pretty closely interrelated making it meaningful to classify them. This is the second main aim of this book. The third objective is to suggest ways of dealing with paradoxes. Since voting is and has always been an essential instrument of democratic rule, it is of some in­ terest to find out how voting paradoxes are being dealt with by past and present methods of voting. Of even greater interest is to find ways of minimizing the probability of occurrence of various paradoxes. By their very nature some paradoxes are unavoidable.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hannu Nurmi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them

  • Authors: Hannu Nurmi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03782-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-66236-5Published: 17 September 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08551-2Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-03782-9Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 154

  • Topics: Political Science, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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