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Comparing Voting Systems

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Hannu Nurmi

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

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 3)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Hannu Nurmi
    Pages 1-4

  3. Preliminaries

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    Pages 5-7

  4. Social Welfare Function, Social Choice Function and Voting Procedures

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    Pages 8-11

  5. First Problem: Cyclic Majorities

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    Pages 12-37

  6. Second Problem: How to Satisfy the Condorcet Criteria

    • Hannu Nurmi
    Pages 38-65

  7. Third Problem: How to Avoid Perverse Response to Changes in Individual Opinions

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    Pages 66-80

  8. Fourth Problem: How to Honour Unanimous Preferences

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    Pages 81-91

  9. Fifth Problem: How to Make Consistent Choices

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    Pages 92-107

  10. Sixth Problem: How to Encourage the Sincere Revelation of Preferences

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    Pages 108-134

  11. Social Choice Methods Based on More Detailed Information about Individual Preferences

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    Pages 135-147

  12. Asking for Less than Individual Preference Orderings

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    Pages 148-159

  13. Why is There So Much Stability and How Can We Get More of It?

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    Pages 160-177

  14. From Committees to Elections

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    Pages 178-190

  15. Conclusions

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    Pages 191-193

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 194-209
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About this book

In many contexts of everyday life we find ourselves faced with the problem of reconciling the views of several persons. These problems are usually solved by resorting to some opinion aggre­ gating procedure, like voting. Very often the problem is thought of as being solved after the decision to take a vote has been made and the ballots have been counted. Most official decision making bodies have formally instituted procedures of voting but in informal groups such procedures are typically chosen in casu. Curiously enough people do not seem to pay much attention to which particular procedure is being resorted to as long as some kind of voting takes place. As we shall see shortly the procedure being used often makes a great difference to the voting outcomes. Thus, the Question arises as to which voting procedure is best. This book is devoted to a discussion of this problem in the light of various criteria of optimality. We shall deal with a number of procedures that have been proposed foruse or are actually in use in voting contexts. The aim of this book is to give an evaluation of the virtues and shortcomings of these procedures. On the basis of this evaluation the reader will hopefully be able to determine which procedure is optimal for the decision setting that he or she has in mind.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Finland

    Hannu Nurmi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comparing Voting Systems

  • Authors: Hannu Nurmi

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3985-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2600-1Published: 31 October 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8268-6Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3985-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 209

  • Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences

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