Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 260 g
ISBN: 978-3-642-08551-2
Verlag: Springer
Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Typically they suggest that something is wrong with the way in dividual opinions are being expressed or processed in voting. The outcomes are bizarre, unfair or otherwise implausible, given the expressed opinions of voters. Voting paradoxes have an important role in the history of social choice theory. The founding fathers of the theory, Marquis de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda, were keenly aware of some of them. Indeed, much of the work of these and other forerunners of the modern social choice theory dealt with ways of avoiding paradoxes related to voting. One of the early paradoxes, viz. that bearing the name of Condorcet, has subsequently gained such a prominent place in the literature that it is sometimes called the paradox of voting. One of the aims of the present work is to show that Condorcet's is but one of many paradoxes of voting. Some of these are pretty closely interrelated making it meaningful to classify them. This is the second main aim of this book. The third objective is to suggest ways of dealing with paradoxes. Since voting is and has always been an essential instrument of democratic rule, it is of some in terest to find out how voting paradoxes are being dealt with by past and present methods of voting. Of even greater interest is to find ways of minimizing the probability of occurrence of various paradoxes. By their very nature some paradoxes are unavoidable.
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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Ökonometrie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Computeranwendungen in der Mathematik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
Weitere Infos & Material
1 Introduction.- 2 Basic Concepts and Tools.- 3 Paradoxes of the Enlightenment Era.- 4 The Geometry of Voting.- 5 The Paradoxical Act of Voting.- 6 Monotonicity Paradoxes.- 7 Compound Majority Paradoxes.- 8 Intra-Profile Paradoxes.- 9 Paradoxes of Representation.- 10 Classification of Paradoxes.- 11 Hard and Soft Solutions.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.
