Disposing dictators, demystifying voting paradoxes : social choice analysis / Donald G. Saari.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780521731607
- 324.6 23 Sa112
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| 324.5479 K96 Second general election in Sholapur | 324.6 Decisions and elections:explainning the unexpected | 324.6 R888 Essays on individual and collective powers in a voting body | 324.6 Sa112 Disposing dictators, demystifying voting paradoxes : | 324.601513 Si589 Mathematics and democracy | 324.60954 B327 Electoral politics in South Asia | 324.63 L345 Handbook on approval voting |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Subtle complexity of social choice;
2. Dethroning dictators;
3. Voting dictionaries;
4. Explaining all voting paradoxes;
5. Deliver us from plurality vote;
6. Appendix.
We decide by elections, but do we elect who the voters really want? The answer, as we have learned over the last two centuries, is 'not necessarily'. What a negative, frightening assertion about a principal tool of democracy! This negativism has been supported by two hundred years of published results showing how bad the situation can be. This expository, largely non-technical book is the first to find positive results showing that the situation is not anywhere as dire and negative as we have been led to believe. Instead there are surprisingly simple explanations for the negative assertions, and positive conclusions can be obtained.
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