Overview
- Presents recent research on the analysis of voting rules using the probability approach
- Follows up on recent books by Gehrlein and Lepelley in the same book series
- Pays tribute to William Gehrlein’s and Dominique Lepelley’s important work in the field
Part of the book series: Studies in Choice and Welfare (WELFARE)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules and Related Paradoxes
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Other Voting Paradoxes
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Binary Voting in Federations
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Resistance to Manipulations
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About this book
This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms. Featuring papers from all fields of social choice and game theory, it presents probability arguments to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the properties of decision rules and of the functioning of modern democracies. In particular, it focuses on the legacy of William Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley, two prominent scholars who have made important contributions to this field over the last fifty years. It covers a range of topics, including (but not limited to) computational and technical aspects of probability approaches, evaluation of the likelihood of voting paradoxes, power indices, empirical evaluations of voting rules, models of voters’ behavior, and strategic voting. The book gathers articles written in honor of Gehrlein and Lepelley along with original works written by the two scholars themselves.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vincent Merlin is a CNRS Research Professor of Economics at the University of Caen Normandie, France, since 1997. His research topics incude social choice theory, game theory, and the analysis of voting systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evaluating Voting Systems with Probability Models
Book Subtitle: Essays by and in Honor of William Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley
Editors: Mostapha Diss, Vincent Merlin
Series Title: Studies in Choice and Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48598-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48597-9Published: 19 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48600-6Published: 19 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48598-6Published: 18 December 2020
Series ISSN: 1614-0311
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8530
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 403
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Electoral Politics, Game Theory, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Democracy, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences