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Condorcet voting methods avoid the paradoxes of voting theory

2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2012
Democratically choosing a single preference from more than two candidate options is not a straightforward matter. In fact, voting theory has established a number of paradoxes which assert seemingly innocuous attributes to be incompatible. One of the most desirable attributes — independence of irrelevant alternatives — is proven by Arrow to be ...
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A Conflict Theory of Voting [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Research in the behavioral psychology of voting has found that voters tend to be poorly informed, highly responsive to candidate personality, and follow a "fast and frugal" heuristic. This paper analyzes optimal candidate strategies in a two-party election in which voters are assumed to behave according to these traits.
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Theory of Voting

1989
The most familiar type of democratic decision is the majority rule. It reflects the rather vague principle of ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ (Bentham, 1780 [1948]) and can be so interpreted if social good is measured by the number of people pleased by the results of an election or a referendum, provided there are exactly two candidates or ...
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Experimentation and voting theory

2019
Aunque no hay un sistema de votación ideal, no todos son iguales. El trabajo experimental permite completar las predicciones teóricas sobre los respectivos fallos de los diferentes sistemas.
Igersheim, Herrade, Baujard, Antoinette
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Probabilistic Voting Theory

1992
Peter Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting models to date. Probabilistic voting theory is the mathematical prediction of candidate behaviour in, or in anticipation of, elections in which candidates are unsure of voters' preferences.
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Unsettling aspects of voting theory

Economic Theory, 2003
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Voting theory and preference modeling

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009
Cet article présente le numéro spécial de Mathematical Social Sciences dont les auteurs sont également les responsables éditoriaux ...
Roberts, Fred, Tsoukiàs, Alexis
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