Abstract
Simple majority voting is compared with several other representative voting systems with respect to the frequency with which various anomalies occur. Whether strong or weak preferences are used, for each anomaly type simple majority voting yields neither highest nor lowest frequencies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 13-20 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Mathematical social sciences |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1984 |
Keywords
- Simple majority voting
- maximal alternative existence
- probability of strategyproofness
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Social Sciences
- General Psychology
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty