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The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]
Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval voting, allowing
Hillinger, Claude
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Normalized Range Voting Broadly Resists Control [PDF]
We study the behavior of Range Voting and Normalized Range Voting with respect to electoral control. Electoral control encompasses attempts from an election chair to alter the structure of an election in order to change the outcome. We show that a voting
Menton, Curtis
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Voting Power and Voting Blocs [PDF]
We investigate the method of power indices to study voting power of members of a legislature that has voting blocs. Our analysis is theoretical, intended to contribute to a theory of positive political science in which social actors are motivated by the pursuit of power as measured by objective power indices. Our starting points are the papers by Riker
Leech, Dennis, Leech, Robert
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Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting [PDF]
While online services emerge in all areas of life, the voting procedure in many democracies remains paper-based as the security of current online voting technology is highly disputed. We address the issue of trustworthy online voting protocols and recall
Grumbach, Stéphane, Riemann, Robert
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Classification of voting algorithms for N-version software [PDF]
A voting algorithm in N-version software is a crucial component that evaluates the execution of each of the N versions and determines the correct result.
Durmuş, Mustafa Seçkin +3 more
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Party leaders are increasingly relevant to voters’ choices in parliamentary systems. However, most studies addressing the electoral impact of leaders have largely ignored voters’ emotional responses to party leaders.
Ángel Cazorla Martín +2 more
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Utilitarian Collective Choice and Voting [PDF]
In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow’s theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed.
A Sen +14 more
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The problem of impact resistant and variables of electoral properties of candidates for for voting behavior of voters. In particular, it is shown that all factors determining the voting behavior of voters are graded on a fi ed (internal), weakly ...
I. V. Groshev +3 more
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On the Possibility of Democracy and Rational Collective Choice [PDF]
The paper challenges the 'orthodox doctrine' of collective choice theory according to which Arrow’s 'general possibility theorem' precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be flawed.
Hillinger, Claude
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Can we devise mechanisms that allow voters to express the intensity of their preferences when monetary transfers are forbidden? Can minorities be decisive over those issues they feel very strongly about? As opposed to the usual voting system (one person – one decision – one vote), we propose a voting system where each agent is endowed with a fixed ...
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