Voting Paradoxes And How To Deal With Them

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in elections. Theypertain to such phenomena as additional support being detrimental forcandidates and not ... » 

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in elections. Theypertain to such phenomena as additional support being detrimental forcandidates and not voting leading to better outcomes than voting for somevoters. No voting system is immune to all paradoxes and therefore votingparadoxes are being dealt with by all voting systems currently in use. How theyare and how they should be handled is the main subject of this book. The bookoutlines explains and classifies a number of paradoxes Bordas andCondorcets classic ones several monotonicity and compound majority paradoxesas well as some paradoxes of representation. Both theoretical and practicalways of avoiding them are discussed. «